The Veteran's medical expenses at St. Francis Medical Center on September 7, 2013 are approved as the condition was an emergent situation and VA facilities were not feasibly available.
The deciding factor: The emergency nature of the Veteran's right wrist injury and the lack of availability of VA facilities made seeking immediate care reasonable and necessary.
- Claimed conditions
- right wrist injury
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- November 19, 2019
- Citation
- 19186241
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.
What you can do next
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Denied
The Board denied service connection for multiple claimed disabilities, including fractured skull, sinusitis, broken elbows, wrist injury, hand fracture, hips, knee and ankle injuries, as there was no evidence of current disability or functional impairment related to these claims.
- Dismissed
The Veteran withdrew his appeal for all issues, including initial and increased ratings for various conditions and service connection claims.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has remanded the case to the AMC for compliance with VCAA requirements, and will be reviewed again after additional development.
- Denied
The Board has determined that the veteran does not have a current disability due to broken ribs or right wrist injury, and therefore service connection for these conditions is denied.
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