The Veteran's unauthorized medical expenses incurred at St. Joseph Mercy Saline Hospital from March 17, 2008 to March 22, 2008 are granted as the services were provided in a medical emergency and VA facilities were not feasibly available.
The deciding factor: VA was not capable of accepting transfer because no beds were available at the VAMC, and attempts to use them beforehand would have been unreasonable due to waiting lists for admission.
- Claimed conditions
- post-phlebitic syndrome, malignant skin neoplasm
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 40%
- Decision date
- January 22, 2010
- Citation
- 1003405
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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.
What you can do next
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Denied
The Board denied service connection for malignant skin neoplasm, finding that the evidence did not support a link to in-service radiation exposure or any other in-service incurrence.
- Granted
The Board granted service connection for post-phlebitic syndrome, secondary to the Veteran's service-connected hypertension.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Veteran's appeal for service connection for malignant skin neoplasm is dismissed. The Board has remanded the issues of service connection for neck condition and spine condition.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Veteran's claim for service connection for malignant skin neoplasm is being remanded due to an error in docketing under the Appeals Modernization Act (AMA). The issue will be reviewed with new evidence added within a year of the April 2018 rating decision.
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