The Veteran's claim for payment or reimbursement of unauthorized medical treatment provided on July 6, 2012, at Florida Hospital Fish Memorial is denied because the condition was not an emergency and a VA facility was feasibly available.
The deciding factor: The evidence does not support that the migraine was of such severity to constitute a medical emergency, nor did it demonstrate that a VA or other Federal facility was not feasibly available and using them beforehand would not have been considered reasonable by a prudent layperson.
- Claimed conditions
- Migraine
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- October 16, 2018
- Citation
- 18142628
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