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
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Decisions by this judge: 1,934 · Granted: 41% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
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What this means for you
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- Dismissed
The Veteran's appeals have been dismissed as he has withdrawn his appeal for all issues.
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