The Veteran's claim for reimbursement of unauthorized medical expenses incurred at Mercy Hospital on September 6, 2015 is denied because the treatment was not provided for a service-connected condition and there was no indication that prior authorization was given.
The deciding factor: The evidence does not meet the criteria for payment or reimbursement under 38 U.S.C. § 1725 due to lack of prior authorization and non-service connected nature of the condition.
- Claimed conditions
- poison ivy
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- October 5, 2020
- Citation
- 20064568
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Decisions by this judge: 2,287 · Granted: 23% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
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