The Veteran is granted a temporary total disability rating of one month following his right total hip replacement surgery at the Durham VA Medical Center on December 14, 2003. He is also granted a permanent 100 percent disability rating for one year from that date.
The deciding factor: The evidence showed that the Veteran underwent a right total hip replacement at the Durham VA Medical Center on December 14, 2003, and this surgery was performed within the timeframe required by VA regulations for a temporary total disability rating under 38 C.F.R. § 4.30.
- Claimed conditions
- right hip rheumatoid arthritis, right total hip replacement
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 100%
- Decision date
- December 28, 2009
- Citation
- 0948689
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