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
- Not verified here — check the original decision
- Decision date
- September 6, 2002
- Citation
- 0211520
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What this means for you
A final Board denial may be appealed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims, generally within 120 days of the Board mailing date. A Supplemental Claim with new and relevant evidence is a separate option. Another Higher-Level Review of the Board decision is not available. Check your own notice: this historical decision does not set your deadline.
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).
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Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Whole decision: Partly granted
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- Whole decision: Granted
The Board granted a 60 percent disability rating for residuals of inactive tuberculosis from March 21, 2020 to February 24, 2021.
- Whole decision: Denied
The Board denied service connection for the veteran's claimed conditions, including an enlarged cisterna magna and various other symptoms, as there was no evidence of a chronic disability that manifested during or after service.
- Whole decision: Remanded (sent back)
The Board has remanded the claims for service connection due to incomplete VA treatment records, specifically those scanned into the VISTA imaging system. The RO is instructed to obtain and associate all of the Veteran's records from this system with the record.
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