The Veteran's unauthorized medical expenses incurred from January 27 to February 1, 2011 at Baptist Medical Center are approved as the treatment was deemed necessary due to a medical emergency and VA facilities were not feasibly available.
The deciding factor: The treatment provided constituted an emergency that required immediate attention given the severity of symptoms and the prudent layperson's expectation of health hazard if delayed.
- Claimed conditions
- rectal bleeding and pain, acquired immune deficiency syndrome
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- May 13, 2014
- Citation
- 1421531
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