The Board has remanded the cases for further development and examination. For hepatitis C, additional treatment records are needed. For adjustment disorder with anxiety, a VA psychiatric examination is required to assess current severity.
The deciding factor: The Veteran's service connection claim for hepatitis C requires obtaining outstanding treatment records, while his increased rating claim for adjustment disorder with anxiety needs an updated VA examination due to the significant time since the last evaluation.
- Claimed conditions
- hepatitis C, adjustment disorder with anxiety
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- April 11, 2019
- Citation
- 19128197
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.
- Denied
The Board denied service connection for hepatitis C, jaundice, hypogeusia, and hyposmia as there was no evidence of a current disability during the pendency of the claim.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board denied service connection for hepatitis C and remanded the claim for a heart disability due to insufficient evidence.
- Granted
The Board granted service connection for hepatitis C, resolving reasonable doubt in the Veteran's favor.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the issue of entitlement to an initial compensable disability rating for service-connected hepatitis C due to an inadequate VA examination and medical opinions.
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