The Veteran's service-connected residuals, status post sigmoid colectomy and colocolostomy, to include incisional hernia surgeries, are rated at a maximum 100 percent rating. The Veteran's service-connected gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) with hiatal hernia is rated at a 60 percent rating.
The deciding factor: The medical evidence shows that the Veteran has persistent and severe symptoms related to her service-connected conditions, warranting the highest ratings available under the applicable diagnostic codes.
- Claimed conditions
- residuals, status post sigmoid colectomy and colocolostomy, gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) with hiatal hernia
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 100%
- Decision date
- July 11, 2018
- Citation
- 18117820
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What this means for you
A grant means the Board agreed the veteran was entitled to the benefit. Decisions like this show the kind of evidence and arguments that tend to succeed for claims like it.
What you can do next
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Dismissed
The appeal was dismissed due to a prohibited concurrent election under VA claims processing rules.
- Granted
The Board granted an increased rating of 30 percent for the Veteran's GERD with hiatal hernia, finding that the severity of the condition most closely approximates the criteria for a 30 percent disability evaluation.
- Granted
The Board granted a 30 percent rating for the Veteran's GERD with hiatal hernia, resolving any doubt in favor of the Veteran.
- Partly granted
The Board granted service connection for asthma and GERD with hiatal hernia, effective from December 5, 2017. The claims for chronic fatigue, herpes simplex, enteritis, and left knee patellofemoral pain syndrome were dismissed.
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