The Veteran's claim for payment of unauthorized medical expenses incurred at Wesley Medical Center on October 27, 2011 is granted as the VA facilities were not feasibly available and an attempt to use them beforehand would not have been reasonable by a prudent layperson.
The deciding factor: The evidence is in equipoise regarding whether VA facilities were feasibly available for the Veteran's condition at the time of treatment.
- Claimed conditions
- difficulty breathing, blacking out
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- January 10, 2013
- Citation
- 1301045
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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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