The Veteran's unauthorized medical expenses incurred for emergency treatment at Swedish Medical Center are granted, as the condition was emergent and a VA facility was not feasibly available.
The deciding factor: The Veteran's condition upon arrival at Swedish Medical Center was emergent and required ongoing intensive care unit level care.
- Claimed conditions
- upper gastrointestinal bleed
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- April 25, 2019
- Citation
- 19132106
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Decisions by this judge: 1,934 · Granted: 41% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
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