treating physician rule

treating-physician rule. The principle that a treating physician’s diagnoses and findings about the degree of a social-security claimant’s impairment are binding on an administrative-law judge in the absence of substantial contrary evidence. [Cases: Social Security and Public Welfare 143.65. C.J.S. Social Security and Public Welfare § 71.]

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