The Board denied the veteran's claim for payment or reimbursement of private medical expenses incurred at Columbia Colleton Medical Center on October 13, 1999 due to lack of evidence of a service-connected disability or participation in an approved rehabilitation program.
The deciding factor: VA is precluded by law and regulation from authorizing private medical care or paying for unauthorized private medical care as the veteran does not meet the basic criterion for receiving such care.
- Claimed conditions
- hemoptysis
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- September 6, 2002
- Citation
- 0211520
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What this means for you
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