The veteran is not eligible for reimbursement or payment of the cost of private medical care provided on November 15, 2005, at Norman Regional Hospital in Norman, Oklahoma.
The deciding factor: No Federal or VA facilities were feasibly available and an attempt to use them beforehand would not have been considered reasonable, sound, wise, or practicable, or treatment would have been refused.
- Claimed conditions
- Diarrhea, Abdominal pain, Urinary tract infection, Ventral hernia
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- February 4, 2009
- Citation
- 0903934
What this means for you
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