The Veteran's claim for payment or reimbursement of unauthorized medical expenses incurred as a result of medical transportation services provided by LaFarge Area EMS on September 11, 2005 is granted.
The deciding factor: VA agreed to pay the costs of the emergency transport and hospitalization due to an emergency condition that was not resolved until September 13, 2005.
- Claimed conditions
- Not specified in this decision
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- November 23, 2009
- Citation
- 0944621
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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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