The veteran is eligible for payment or reimbursement of the emergency room treatment expenses incurred on July 25, 2006, as he was in need of such care due to a serious medical condition and VA facilities were unavailable.
The deciding factor: A prudent lay person would consider the veteran's difficulty breathing to be an emergent medical condition. The delay in seeking immediate medical attention would have been hazardous to his health, and a VA or other Federal facility was not available.
- Claimed conditions
- Not specified in this decision
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- February 9, 2009
- Citation
- 0904585
What this means for you
A grant means the Board agreed the veteran was entitled to the benefit. Decisions like this show the kind of evidence and arguments that tend to succeed for claims like it.
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