The Veteran's service-connected total disability due to permanent nature of a condition allowed payment for medical expenses incurred at a private hospital on February 13, 2008 due to an emergency situation.
The deciding factor: The medical emergency was of such severity that delay would have been hazardous to the Veteran's health and VA facilities were not feasibly available.
- Claimed conditions
- Anxiety reaction, Hypertension with nephropathy
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 100%
- Decision date
- March 14, 2011
- Citation
- 1110091
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What this means for you
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