As stated in the following article herein, it contains informations that will help you to provide the best possible service
to your patients in conjunctions with Canada Pension Plan (CPP) Program. As a physician, you may be asked to provide medical information for a patient who has applied for CPP disability benefits. This article can be a guideline for every physicians that will help Social Development Canada assess your patient’s eligibility, or continued eligibility.
It contains sections such Benefits available from the CPP, What are the eligibility criterias, What other information does CPP need to make a decision, How long will the benefits be paid or stopped, The application process, Will CPP help my patients with vocational rehabilitation, Billing for medical reports, and etc.
And there are also Release of information under the Canada Pension Plan legislation and ways to contact CPP for both physicians and patients in hot call numbers of English, French and TTY.
Please have complete informations about Applying Canada Pension Plan Disability Benefits as Physician’s Guidelines in 16 pages,176 Kb pdf filetype available (source: hrsdc.gc.ca)

