The veteran was granted payment or reimbursement for unauthorized medical expenses incurred at a private hospital on October 16, 2005, due to the treatment being necessary and VA facilities not being feasibly available.
The deciding factor: A prudent layperson could reasonably expect that delay in seeking immediate medical attention would have been hazardous to life or health given the Veteran's recent heart surgery and symptoms of shortness of breath combined with a history of heart problems.
- Claimed conditions
- shortness of breath, focal pneumonitis
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- March 13, 2009
- Citation
- 0909474
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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