The veteran's claim for payment or reimbursement of unauthorized medical expenses incurred from March 1 to March 10, 1994 was denied because he had no service-connected disabilities and VA did not authorize the care provided at St. Luke Hospital, East.
The deciding factor: VA determined that the veteran did not have any service-connected disabilities and therefore was not entitled to receive non-VA care at VA expense for his unauthorized medical expenses incurred in March 1994.
- Claimed conditions
- Acute appendicitis
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- January 22, 2003
- Citation
- 0301241
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