The Board has remanded the claim of service connection for hyperparathyroidism due to inadequate compliance with previous remand directives and a need for a new opinion from an appropriate clinician.
The deciding factor: The remand is required because the previous VA examiner did not consider the Veteran's private provider's opinion or discuss her in-service complaints related to hyperparathyroidism, which may be early signs of the condition.
- Claimed conditions
- hyperparathyroidism
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- October 29, 2019
- Citation
- 19181338
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Decisions by this judge: 2,084 · Granted: 20% (granted or partly granted, in the indexed decisions on this site)
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What this means for you
A remand sends an issue back for more development, often a new examination or missing records. It does not award the benefit or decide the final outcome. The original decision explains the additional work ordered.
What you can do next
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Denied
The Veteran's claims for service connection for hyperparathyroidism and thyroid cancer have been denied as there is no current disability of the claimed conditions separate from his already service-connected condition.
- Denied
The Veteran's death was not caused by any service-connected disability, and the criteria for DIC under 38 U.S.C. § 1318 were not met.
- Partly granted
The Board denied an initial rating in excess of 30 percent for hypothyroidism and remanded the claim for a compensable rating for hyperparathyroidism.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the claim for service connection of hyperparathyroidism to correct a duty to assist error, requiring an adequate medical opinion regarding its relation to military service.
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