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The Veteran's claim for payment or reimbursement of unauthorized medical expenses incurred at Sunrise Hospital on November 30, 2013 is denied because the treatment was not emergency care and all criteria under 38 U.S.C. § 1725 were not met.

The deciding factor: The treatment provided by Sunrise Hospital on November 30, 2013 was pre-scheduled rather than emergency care, and the Veteran did not meet the medical emergency requirement under 38 U.S.C. § 1725.

Claimed conditions
Galeazzi fracture of the left arm, damage to his eye socket requiring stitches, broken nose
How they argued it
Not specified
Exposure basis
None
Rating assigned
None in this decision
Decision date
May 2, 2019
Citation
19134394

Veterans Law Judge

S. C. KREMBS

Decisions by this judge: 1,934 · Granted: 41% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)

Judge attribution: 2025 complete; earlier years partial.

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