The Veteran's medical expenses at a private hospital were reimbursed because the treatment was necessary due to a medical emergency and VA facilities were not feasibly available.
The deciding factor: The non-VA facility could not provide timely care, and it would have been hazardous for the Veteran to wait for VA services given his symptoms.
- Claimed conditions
- left flank pain, dark and cloudy urine
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- December 11, 2018
- Citation
- 18156601
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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.
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Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Granted
The Veteran's claims for service connection for tinnitus, left flank pain, and acquired psychiatric disability have all been granted. The Board found that the conditions are related to their active duty service.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has determined that there are outstanding VA treatment records and a need for further examination to determine if the Veteran's current disability is related to his service in Southwest Asia. The case is being remanded.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has remanded the case for additional development, including obtaining an addendum opinion from a VA examiner regarding the relationship between the Veteran's current symptoms and his service-connected left flank pain.
- Granted
The Veteran's unauthorized medical expenses for emergency treatment on March 12, 2007 are granted as the condition was of such a nature that delay would have been hazardous to life or health and VA facilities were not feasibly available.
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