The Board has remanded the claims for increased ratings and TDIU due to outstanding VA and private treatment records not being obtained. The Veteran is advised to provide authorizations for VA to obtain these records.
The deciding factor: Outstanding medical records are needed to properly assess the severity of the Veteran's disabilities and determine appropriate disability ratings.
- Claimed conditions
- residuals of a cervical injury, right upper extremity cervical myelopathy, left upper extremity cervical myelopathy
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- October 15, 2018
- Citation
- 18142389
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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
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Granted
The Veteran's service-connected disabilities, including residuals of cervical injury and bilateral upper extremity cervical myelopathy, have rendered him unable to maintain regular substantially gainful employment due to his physical limitations.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Veteran's appeal is being remanded for further development, including obtaining SSA records and arranging for a DRO hearing. His TDIU claim is also inextricably intertwined with his increased rating claims.
- Granted
The Board has determined that the Veteran's residuals of a cervical injury, kyphotic deformity and disc pathology at C6-7, were incurred in service.
- Denied
The veteran's claim for payment or reimbursement of unauthorized medical expenses incurred at Chenango Memorial Hospital in August 2005 was denied as the treatment did not meet the criteria for emergency care and no VA facility was feasibly available.
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