The Veteran's claim for payment or reimbursement of medical services received at St. Lukes Regional Medical Center (SLRMC) from May 8, 2015 to May 9, 2015 has been granted.,The Veteran's claim for payment or reimbursement of the cost of private emergency transportation to SLRMC by Blaine County Ambulance (BCA) and St. Lukes Air (SLA) on May 8, 2015 has also been granted.
The deciding factor: Both claims met all necessary criteria under VA regulations for payment or reimbursement.
- Claimed conditions
- ascending cholangitis
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- August 15, 2019
- Citation
- 19163453
Veterans Law Judge
Decisions by this judge: 1,726 · Granted: 19% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
Judge attribution: 2025 complete; earlier years partial.
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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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- Denied
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- Denied
The Board denied the claim for service connection for the cause of the veteran's death, finding that there was no evidence linking any disability to his military service.
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