The Board has remanded the Veteran's claims of service connection for left-hand and right-hand degenerative arthritis due to insufficient evidence. The Veteran is also being remanded for a new evaluation of his scar condition.
The deciding factor: The VA examiner will need to determine if the Veteran currently has diagnosed left-hand and right-hand degenerative arthritis, and whether these conditions are related to service.
- Claimed conditions
- left-hand degenerative arthritis, right-hand degenerative arthritis
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating
- Not verified here — check the original decision
- Decision date
- August 16, 2018
- Citation
- 18127235
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What this means for you
A remand sends an issue back for more development, often a new examination or missing records. It does not award the benefit or decide the final outcome. The original decision explains the additional work ordered.
What you can do next
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Denied
The Veteran's claim for an initial disability rating in excess of 10 percent for right-hand index finger post fracture of middle and proximal phalanges and right-hand degenerative arthritis is denied as the maximum schedular rating available for limitation of motion of the index finger, whether with the dominant or nondominant hand, is 10 percent.
- Granted
The Board has granted service connection for left knee osteoarthritis, instability, and total knee replacement, left knee scar, right-hand degenerative arthritis disability, left-hand osteoarthritis disability, and lumbosacral strain with osteoarthritis of the lumbar spine. The claims for left shoulder disability, higher evaluations for hip disabilities, and TDIU are remanded.
- Denied
The Board has denied the Veteran's claims for service connection for left-hand degenerative arthritis and bilateral idiopathic peripheral autonomic neuropathy, finding that there is no evidence linking these conditions to his time in service.
- Dismissed
The Veteran withdrew his appeals for service connection of all listed conditions.
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