The Veteran's CT scan at Valley Medical Center was not authorized by VA, and the appeal is denied as no authorization for the procedure was sought or received.
The deciding factor: No authorization for the CT scan was provided by VA
- Claimed conditions
- Chronic Pancreatitis
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- November 29, 2019
- Citation
- 19190216
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Decisions by this judge: 1,726 · Granted: 19% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
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