The Board has remanded the cases for obtaining additional medical records from Country Side Mease Hospital to determine if the appellant's claimed disabilities are related to service.
The deciding factor: The VA did not obtain a private medical release submitted by the appellant, and it is necessary to do so to make a determination on service connection.
- Claimed conditions
- bone disease, disability manifesting in blindness
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- May 24, 2018
- Citation
- 18105526
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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
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- Remanded (sent back)
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