The Board has granted the veteran's claim for payment or reimbursement of unauthorized medical expenses from treatment initiated on July 22, 2003, at the John C. Lincoln Hospital due to the VA facilities not being feasibly available.
The deciding factor: VA facilities were not feasibly available and an attempt to use them before hand would not have been considered reasonable by a prudent layperson.
- Claimed conditions
- cholelithiasis, left renal calculus, left renal cysts, large hiatal hernia, extensive sigmoid diverticulosis without diverticulitis, chronic prostatitis
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- May 10, 2006
- Citation
- 0613623
Veterans Law Judge
Decisions by this judge: 1,547 · Granted: 20% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
Judge attribution: 2025 complete; earlier years partial.
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What this means for you
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- Granted
The Veteran's cholelithiasis, status-post cholecystectomy, has been rated at 30 percent since the decision was made. The rating is for severe symptoms including abdominal pain and chronic diarrhea.
- Granted
The Board has determined that the Veteran's chronic prostatitis was caused by his in-service renal contusion, and therefore grants service connection for this condition.
- Denied
The Veteran's initial compensable evaluation for cholelithiasis with subsequent gallbladder removal is denied as she has not been shown to have moderate cholecystitis or mild symptoms resulting from the procedure.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has remanded the case due to non-compliance with prior remand directives and a need for further medical opinions regarding whether pain medications used for service-connected low back disability caused or aggravated gallbladder disability.
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