The Veteran's claim for payment or reimbursement of unauthorized medical expenses for emergency treatment received at Vanderbilt University Medical Center from April 10, 2013, to April 12, 2013 is denied because a VA facility was feasibly available and an attempt to use the VA facility beforehand would have been considered reasonable by a prudent layperson.
The deciding factor: The Board found that a VA facility was feasibly available and an attempt to use the nearby VA Medical Center beforehand would have been considered reasonable by a prudent layperson given the duration of symptoms reported by the Veteran.
- Claimed conditions
- Myocardial infarction
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- December 28, 2017
- Citation
- 1760744
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