The opportunity for a disability hearing is afforded at the reconsideration level
of appeal in cases involving:
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favorable initial determinations that were adversely reopened and revised based on
medical factors, e.g., adverse reopenings that revised an allowance to a denial, established
a later onset date, or changed an open period allowance to a closed period;
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reopenings that change only the basis for the cessation; or
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favorable reconsidered determinations that have been reopened and that we propose
to adversely revise based on medical factors.