The FTFPT determination must include all of the following:

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  The identity of the prescribing medical source.

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  The identity of the impairment for which the treatment was prescribed.

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  A description of the prescribed treatment.

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  A description of the evidence that demonstrates the individual did not follow the prescribed treatment.

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  An explanation of your assessment(s) about why we do or do not expect the prescribed treatment to result in the individual no longer being disabled and/or why the individual does or does not have good cause for not following the prescribed treatment.

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  If you did not need to make both assessments, an explanation why.

Include the FTFPT determination:

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  In eCAT, in the FOFAE section of eCAT in the DDE;

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  In DCPS, in the appropriate section; or

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  In a paper claim, in the written rationale.

In claims adjudicated using DCPS, include the FTFPT determination where indicated in the claim path.