The Board has granted a 100 percent disability rating for right knee osteoarthritis/degenerative joint disease, status post hemiarthroplasty from July 6, 2012 through August 31, 2013. Effective September 1, 2013, the Veteran is granted a 30 percent rating.
The deciding factor: The Veteran's partial right knee replacement qualifies for a temporary 100% rating under Diagnostic Code 5055 from July 6, 2012 to August 31, 2013. After this period, the Veteran is granted a minimum 30 percent rating.
- Claimed conditions
- Right knee osteoarthritis/degenerative joint disease, Partial right knee replacement
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 30%
- Decision date
- November 14, 2018
- Citation
- 18149953
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- Granted
The Veteran's right knee instability is rated at 30 percent, effective February 11, 2009. The left inguinal hernia repair disability remains at a 10 percent rating.
- Granted
The Veteran's partial right knee replacement is rated at 30 percent since August 1, 2014. Separate ratings for instability are granted from September 8, 2010 through June 5, 2013 (10 percent) and as of December 11, 2017 (20 percent). The Veteran's TDIU is granted beginning September 26, 2016.
- Granted
The Veteran's right knee disability, including his partial knee replacement surgery, is rated at a minimum of 30 percent effective August 1, 2013.
- Denied
The Board denied the veteran's claims for increased ratings for his service-connected lumbar myositis, psychoneurosis and conversion hysteria, residuals of shrapnel wounds of the left thigh and pelvis with retained foreign bodies and scars, and residuals of shell fragment wounds of the right thigh and left leg. The veteran was also denied entitlement to a total disability rating based on individual unemployability due to service-connected disabilities.
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