The Veteran's claim for payment or reimbursement of medical expenses incurred at Multicare Orthopedics on October 8, 2012 is granted as the VA Puget Sound Health Care System staff provided authorization for the non-VA treatment and the appeal is based on a direct service connection issue.
The deciding factor: The VA Puget Sound Health Care System staff authorized follow-up care for the Veteran's knee injury, which was encouraged by them. The Board found that this constituted prior authorization for the private medical expenses incurred at Multicare Orthopedics.
- Claimed conditions
- Left Knee Injury
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- April 28, 2017
- Citation
- 1714040
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