The veteran's unauthorized medical expenses incurred at Glenwood Regional Medical Center on December 14, 1998 were not for a service-connected disability and thus payment or reimbursement is denied.
The deciding factor: The treatment was not for any of the service-connected disabilities listed in her case file.
- Claimed conditions
- bunion with painful foot syndrome, right, bunionectomy with painful foot syndrome, left, enlarged thyroid (goiter), chondromalacia and osteoarthritis of the left knee, chondromalacia and osteoarthritis of the right knee, fibrocystic disease, both breasts, biopsy scar, right breast
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- August 29, 2001
- Citation
- 0121820
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