The Board has remanded the cases for additional development due to VA's failure to obtain private treatment records from specific providers. The appellant is required to provide releases and obtain any relevant medical records.
The deciding factor: VA failed to request that the appellant obtain and submit specific private treatment records as ordered by the Court in May 2019.
- Claimed conditions
- traumatic osteoarthritis of the right knee, traumatic arthritis of the right knee, status post knee replacement
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- April 2, 2020
- Citation
- 20022855
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What this means for you
A remand is not a loss. The Board sent the case back for more development — often a new exam or missing records — before making a final decision. Many remands later end in a grant, and the decision spells out exactly what the Board wanted to see.
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