The Board has remanded the Veteran's claims of service connection for a bilateral hip condition, Alzheimer's disease, and a bilateral lower extremity condition due to potential gaps in medical records and insufficient evidence regarding the etiology of these conditions.
The deciding factor: The decision is based on the need for additional development including obtaining private medical records and scheduling VA examinations to determine the nature and etiology of the Veteran's claimed conditions.
- Claimed conditions
- Bilateral hip condition, Alzheimer's disease, Bilateral lower extremity condition
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- October 23, 2020
- Citation
- 20068905
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.
What you can do next
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Partly granted
The Board denied an initial compensable rating for bilateral hearing loss and remanded the service connection claims for vertigo, dry eye syndrome, and various bilateral conditions due to insufficient evidence.
- Partly granted
The Board denied service connection for GERD and remanded the claims for bilateral ankle, knee, hip, headache, and lower back conditions due to insufficient evidence.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the issue of entitlement to service connection for Alzheimer's disease due to a need for additional evidence and an updated medical opinion.
- Granted
The Board granted service connection for the cause of the Veteran's death, finding that the chronic use of NSAIDs to manage his service-connected disabilities substantially and materially contributed to the Veteran's Alzheimer's disease and Acute Kidney Injury.
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