The Board has granted the Veteran's claim for payment or reimbursement of unauthorized medical expenses incurred at a private hospital in Sarasota, Florida on January 9, 2014 due to left shoulder pain from polymyalgia rheumatica.
The deciding factor: The private hospitalization was deemed an emergency by VA and VA facilities were not feasibly available for the Veteran's condition.
- Claimed conditions
- polymyalgia rheumatica
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- February 6, 2020
- Citation
- 20010286
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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.
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 polymyalgia rheumatica and remanded the issue of rating a disability in excess of 30 percent for coronary artery disease.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the claims for service connection for coronary artery disease, bilateral osteopenia, and polymyalgia rheumatica due to inadequate VA examination reports.
- Dismissed
The appeal for service connection for various conditions has been withdrawn by the Veteran.
- Denied
The Board denied service connection for polymyalgia rheumatica as the evidence did not support a finding that the condition was incurred in or aggravated by active service.
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