The Veteran is seeking reimbursement for unauthorized medical expenses incurred at Good Samaritan Hospital. The Board has decided to remand the case due to insufficient evidence regarding whether the Veteran's condition had stabilized and if he could have been transferred to a VA facility.
The deciding factor: Insufficient evidence was provided to determine when the Veteran's condition had stabilized or if transfer to a VA facility would have been feasible.
- Claimed conditions
- Acute inferior wall myocardial infarction, Clostridium difficile infection
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- June 23, 2015
- Citation
- 1526634
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What this means for you
A remand is not a loss. The Board sent the case back for more development — often a new exam or missing records — before making a final decision. Many remands later end in a grant, and the decision spells out exactly what the Board wanted to see.
What you can do next
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Denied
The Veteran's unauthorized medical expenses incurred at Good Samaritan Hospital from October 12, 2012 to October 14, 2012 are denied as the VA has already granted payment or reimbursement for his initial hospitalization due to emergency treatment. The Veteran was determined to be stable and capable of being transferred to a VA facility by October 12, 2012.
- Granted
The Veteran's emergency medical treatment for a heart attack and cardiac surgery at CMHS was authorized by VA, meeting the criteria for reimbursement of private medical expenses.
- Denied
The Veteran's death was not caused by, or hastened by, the treatment he received in a VA facility between May 2007 and September 2007.
- Denied
The Board found that the veteran's death was not caused by VA hospital care and medical treatment, as his condition developed due to recurrent Clostridium difficile infections contracted during earlier VA hospitalizations or from antimicrobial therapy prescribed by VA physicians.
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