The veteran's claim for reimbursement or payment of unauthorized private medical care, including transportation, received on October 27, 2000, was granted as the treatment was necessary due to an emergent condition and a VA facility was not feasibly available.
The deciding factor: The need for treatment was deemed emergent given the veteran's postictal state following a tonic-clonic seizure and the risk of status epilepticus.
- Claimed conditions
- Temporal lobe epilepsy
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating
- Not verified here — check the original decision
- Decision date
- February 25, 2002
- Citation
- 0201822
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What this means for you
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- Remanded (sent back)
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- Denied
The VA determined that the veteran's vocational goal is not reasonably feasible due to his service-connected disabilities, which prevent him from successfully pursuing a program of higher education and employment.
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