The veteran's unauthorized private hospital care from April 20, 2000 to April 24, 2000 was denied reimbursement or payment due to the lack of a service-connected condition for which VA medical facilities were not feasibly available.
The deciding factor: VA medical facilities were feasibly available during the period of unauthorized private hospital care and no service-connected disability existed that would have warranted reimbursement under Section 1728(a).
- Claimed conditions
- left renal calculus
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- June 22, 2001
- Citation
- 0116973
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- Denied
The Board has determined that a compensable rating for the Veteran's service-connected left renal calculus is denied as there is no evidence of recurrent stone formation or other symptoms warranting a higher evaluation since December 2000.
- Denied
The Board has determined that the veteran's left renal calculus does not meet or approximate the criteria for a disability rating in excess of 30 percent.
- Granted
The Board has granted the veteran's claim for payment or reimbursement of unauthorized medical expenses from treatment initiated on July 22, 2003, at the John C. Lincoln Hospital due to the VA facilities not being feasibly available.
- Denied
The VA determined that a VA medical facility was feasibly available to provide the treatment initiated on July 22, 2003 at John C. Lincoln Hospital and thus denied the veteran's request for reimbursement of unauthorized medical expenses.
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