The Veteran's appeal for payment or reimbursement of unauthorized medical expenses incurred at Sarasota Memorial Hospital and Northport Emergency Care Center has been denied due to the lack of emergency condition requiring immediate attention.
The deciding factor: The Veteran did not meet the standard for an emergency medical condition, as his symptoms were not severe enough to warrant immediate medical attention.
- Claimed conditions
- Penile condition
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating
- Not verified here — check the original decision
- Decision date
- August 2, 2019
- Citation
- 19160192
Veterans Law Judge
Decisions by this judge: 2,011 · Granted: 24% (granted or partly granted, in the indexed decisions on this site)
Judge attribution: 2025 complete; earlier years partial.
This is a plain-language summary generated by AI from a public Board of Veterans’ Appeals decision. It can contain errors — always verify against the original. Read the original VA decision (opens in a new tab) using citation 19160192.
What this means for you
A final Board denial may be appealed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims, generally within 120 days of the Board mailing date. A Supplemental Claim with new and relevant evidence is a separate option. Another Higher-Level Review of the Board decision is not available. Check your own notice: this historical decision does not set your deadline.
What you can do next
Use your own notice and decision stage. A remanded issue is not a final court-appealable denial. VA review guidance and CAVC filing instructions (U.S. federal; reviewed October 7, 2026).
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Whole decision: Partly granted
The Board denied service connection for bilateral hearing loss and remanded the claims for recurrent tinnitus, a penile condition, and sleep apnea.
- Whole decision: Partly granted
The Board granted a 10 percent rating for GERD and denied service connection for sleep apnea, while dismissing the appeals for PTSD, BHL, and left knee condition as untimely. The other claims were remanded.
- Whole decision: Partly granted
The Board denied an initial compensable rating for bilateral hearing loss and a rating in excess of 40 percent for left eye disability, granted service connection for sinusitis based on exposure to fine particulate matter, and denied service connection for penile condition, allergies, Athlete's foot (tinea pedis and tinea unguium), and low back disability.
- Whole decision: Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands all service connection claims for further development and to correct a pre-decisional duty to assist error.
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