The Board denied accrued benefits for the remaining unreimbursed medical expenses, including Medicare premiums and other services, due to insufficient evidence of past medical expenses at the time of the veteran's death.
The deciding factor: VA did not have sufficient information about the veteran's medical expenses from the file at his date of death to reasonably estimate them with a reasonable degree of accuracy.
- Claimed conditions
- strokes, chronic atrial fibrillation, peripheral vascular disease, insulin-dependent diabetes
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- June 26, 2008
- Citation
- 0821022
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