The Board has denied the Veteran's claim for an evaluation in excess of 10 percent for right knee DJD, status post right knee replacement from October 17, 2009 to April 1, 2016 because the disability was severed due to a prior grant of service connection.
The deciding factor: The right knee DJD disability has been severed and cannot be assigned a higher evaluation as it is no longer service-connected.
- Claimed conditions
- right knee DJD (degenerative joint disease)
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- October 30, 2020
- Citation
- 20070636
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- Remanded (sent back)
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- Remanded (sent back)
The Veteran's request to reopen a claim of service connection for bilateral hearing loss disability is remanded. The issue of entitlement to service connection for right knee DJD and erectile dysfunction secondary to service-connected type II diabetes mellitus and heart disease, including the medications taken to treat DM and heart disease, is also remanded.
- Denied
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- Denied
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