The Veteran's service-connected degenerative osteoarthritis, right hip and scar, right hip are granted with a non-compensable rating. The effective date for these grants is August 10, 2007.
The deciding factor: The Veteran’s right hip postoperative scars were rated under the appropriate diagnostic code based on their characteristics as neither painful nor unstable.
- Claimed conditions
- Degenerative osteoarthritis, right hip, Scar, right hip
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 10%
- Decision date
- August 15, 2019
- Citation
- 19163304
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What this means for you
A grant means the Board agreed the veteran was entitled to the benefit. Decisions like this show the kind of evidence and arguments that tend to succeed for claims like it.
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