What happens when a physician actually needs to use disability insurance?
In this episode of The Responsible Resident, host Amber Stitt speaks with disability insurance attorney Ethan Abramowitz of Seltzer & Associates about what physicians should understand before a disability claim ever occurs.
Ethan draws on experience representing physicians, dentists, and other highly skilled professionals through individual and group disability claims.
The conversation explores true own-occupation disability insurance, partial and residual disability benefits, future increase options, employer group LTD limitations, elimination periods, proof of loss, income documentation, and why the exact language in your disability insurance contract matters.
For medical students, residents, fellows, and practicing physicians, this discussion provides practical insight into how disability insurance policies may operate when illness or injury begins affecting your ability to practice medicine.
What You Will Learn:
• How true own-occupation disability insurance can protect a physician’s specialty
• Why your occupation at the time of disability matters
• How future increase options can help coverage grow with physician income
• What partial or residual disability means
• How declining productivity and income may trigger partial benefits
• Differences between individual disability insurance and employer group LTD
• Why some group policies change definitions after 24 months
• How elimination periods may work with gradually progressing conditions
• Why medical records, CPT production, tax returns, and income documentation matter during a claim
• How physicians can organize their policies and financial records before they are needed
Chapters:
0:00 Introduction to Disability Insurance Claims for Physicians
1:24 Ethan Abramowitz’s Disability Claims Experience
4:55 True Own-Occupation Disability Insurance Explained
8:04 How Your Medical Specialty Can Change Over Time
9:04 Future Increase Options and Medical Underwriting
12:53 Partial and Residual Disability Benefits
18:39 Group LTD and the 24-Month Own-Occupation Limitation
23:13 Side Income and Defining Your Occupation
27:25 Common Causes of Physician Disability
28:52 Elimination Periods and Earlier Disability Dates
31:56 Group Disability Benefit Offsets
34:06 What Happens During a Disability Claim
38:20 How Physicians Can Prepare Before a Claim
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