The Board has remanded the claims for entitlement to service connection for various conditions, including right knee disability, hypertension, bilateral hearing loss, tinnitus, and psychiatric disorders. The appeals are currently pending.
The deciding factor: The evidence does not meet the criteria for establishing service connection for these conditions based on direct service connection or any other theory of entitlement.
- Claimed conditions
- right knee disability, hypertension, bilateral hearing loss, tinnitus, acquired psychiatric disorder (posttraumatic stress disorder, anxiety, and depression), cervical spine degenerative disc disease, lumbar spine degenerative disc disease, coronary artery disease, obstructive sleep apnea
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- May 17, 2019
- Citation
- 19138358
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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
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- Remanded (sent back)
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- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has remanded the claims for service connection for hypertension and peripheral neuropathy of the bilateral upper and lower extremities due to insufficient medical opinions regarding their etiology.
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