The Board has determined that the appellant's service-connected right eye disability requires restoration of fee-basis medical treatment due to geographical inaccessibility and unavailability at VA facilities, with the Northport VAMC being both geographically inaccessible and not capable of providing the required care.
The deciding factor: The evidence showed that the appellant's private ophthalmologist was unable or unwilling to provide continuity of care if he were treated at a VA facility, making it geographically inaccessible and uncapable of providing necessary services.
- Claimed conditions
- right eye uveitis, secondary cataract
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- July 19, 2010
- Citation
- 1026911
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