The Veteran is eligible for payment or reimbursement of unauthorized medical expenses incurred at the Sarasota Memorial Hospital on March 5, 2006, through March 6, 2006, as he met all criteria under 38 U.S.C.A. § 1725.
The deciding factor: The private medical care rendered was for a medical emergency of such a nature that a prudent layperson could reasonably expect the absence of immediate medical attention to result in placing the health of the individual in serious jeopardy, and VA or other Federal facilities were not feasibly available on March 3, 2006.
- 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 19, 2009
- Citation
- 0906169
Veterans Law Judge
Judge attribution: 2025 complete; earlier years partial.
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