The Veteran's claim for payment or reimbursement of medical expenses incurred at Gilmore Memorial Hospital on February 3, 2008 is granted as the treatment was provided in an emergency situation and no VA facilities were feasibly available.
The deciding factor: The treatment was rendered in a medical emergency where delay would have been hazardous to life or health, and no VA facilities were feasible for use at that time.
- Claimed conditions
- Nervous disorder
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 0%
- Decision date
- June 15, 2010
- Citation
- 1022183
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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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