The Veteran's unauthorized hospitalization at St. Francis Medical Center from January 31, 2011, to February 13, 2011, was for a nonservice-connected condition and the VA facilities were not feasibly available due to lack of beds. The appellant has met all substantive and administrative criteria for payment or reimbursement under 38 U.S.C.A. § 1725.
The deciding factor: VA did not accept transfer requests from St. Francis Medical Center until February 9, 2011, despite reasonable attempts to do so, which was due to a lack of available VA beds.
- Claimed conditions
- Not specified in this decision
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- March 25, 2015
- Citation
- 1512719
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