The Veteran is granted treatment without copayment for weight loss management sessions and laboratory services. Treatment with copayments is required beginning May 19, 2007.
The deciding factor: The Veteran's income was verified to be above the threshold for cost-free VA health care, except for copayments starting from May 19, 2007.
- Claimed conditions
- Not specified in this decision
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- July 26, 2010
- Citation
- 1027839
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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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