The Veteran's right hip disability is being remanded for further examination and rating consideration due to the possibility of increased severity since his last VA examination in 2012.
The deciding factor: The Veteran may have experienced an increase in severity of his service-connected right hip disability, as indicated by a private physician’s report from November 2013.
- Claimed conditions
- Right Hip Replacement
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- June 13, 2019
- Citation
- 19145721
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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- Denied
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- Granted
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