The Veteran's unauthorized medical expenses for treatment from June 21, 2010 to June 25, 2010 were not authorized by VA and no VA facility refused to accept a transfer of the Veteran. South Georgia Medical Center documented reasonable attempts to transfer the Veteran to a VA facility.
The deciding factor: The condition stabilized on June 21, 2010, and there was no evidence of a VA facility refusing to accept a transfer or documentation of reasonable attempts to do so.
- Claimed conditions
- Right ankle fracture
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- April 17, 2014
- Citation
- 1417236
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Related decisions
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- Denied
The Board denied the Veteran's motion to revise a March 1975 rating decision that assigned an initial noncompensable disability rating for service-connected right ankle fracture, finding no CUE in the decision.
- Granted
The Veteran's acquired psychiatric disorder, left ankle disorder, and right ankle fracture are all granted service connection. The right ankle fracture is remanded for a higher disability rating.
- Granted
The Board has granted an initial 40 percent rating for the Veteran's right ankle disability, finding that his symptoms more nearly approximated ankylosis in dorsiflexion at more than 10 degrees during flare-ups and after repetitive use over time.
- Denied
The Veteran's request for an effective date before April 23, 2021, for service connection for right ankle stress fracture of the talus with right ankle sprain and right ankle fracture is denied. The June 1998 and July 2002 rating decisions are final, and there was no pending claim or unadjudicated claim under 38 C.F.R. § 3.160(c) or informal claim under 38 C.F.R. §§ 3.155, 3.156 regarding the right ankle disability between the July 2002 rating decision and April 23, 2021.
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