The veteran's service-connected postoperative lumbar laminectomy is currently evaluated at 60 percent, the maximum available rating under the applicable diagnostic code.
The deciding factor: The veteran's disability has been rated based on its current manifestations and does not meet criteria for a higher evaluation as it falls within the highest schedular rating category (60%)
- Claimed conditions
- residuals of a lumbar laminectomy
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating
- Not verified here — check the original decision
- Decision date
- October 23, 2001
- Citation
- 0125102
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What this means for you
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What you can do next
Use your own notice and decision stage. A remanded issue is not a final court-appealable denial. VA review guidance and CAVC filing instructions (U.S. federal; reviewed October 7, 2026).
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Whole decision: Remanded (sent back)
The Board has found that the duty to assist occurred prior to the December 2019 rating decision and a remand is necessary to correct this deficiency. The Veteran's claims for service connection for residuals of a lumbar laminectomy; scoliosis, and an incomplete tear of the right shoulder, rotator cuff tendonitis are being remanded due to the need for additional examinations and development.
- Whole decision: Remanded (sent back)
The Board has determined that the Veteran's service-connected disabilities require additional development and remand for further examination and consideration.
- Whole decision: Remanded (sent back)
The Board has remanded the case due to failure to comply with a February 2016 Board remand directive, which required scheduling the Veteran for a new VA examination. The examiner was supposed to consider the Veteran's statements of pain since service and her medical history.
- Whole decision: Granted
The Board has granted service connection for the Veteran's low back disorder and residuals of a lumbar laminectomy, finding that there is at least equipoise evidence to support this claim.
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