The Board is remanding the case to obtain additional medical records and provide proper VCAA notice.
The deciding factor: VA needs to ensure all relevant evidence, including treatment records from VA facilities, has been obtained and considered in the decision-making process.
- Claimed conditions
- gastroesophageal reflux disorder
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- January 16, 2004
- Citation
- 0401748
Veterans Law Judge
Decisions by this judge: 1,987 · Granted: 15% (granted or partly granted, in the indexed decisions on this site)
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What this means for you
A remand sends an issue back for more development, often a new examination or missing records. It does not award the benefit or decide the final outcome. The original decision explains the additional work ordered.
What you can do next
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- Denied
The Board denied service connection for hypertension, an acquired psychiatric disorder to include posttraumatic stress disorder, depression, and adjustment disorder, and gastroesophageal reflux disorder as secondary to an acquired psychiatric disorder.
- Granted
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- Dismissed
The Board has dismissed all claims due to the Veteran's death, as it does not have jurisdiction to adjudicate the merits of these appeals.
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