The Board has ordered additional VA treatment records and a completed VA Form 21-4142 for non-VA eye care to be obtained, as these are necessary for proper evaluation of the Veteran's right eye corneal scarring claim.
The deciding factor: The decision is remanded due to outstanding VA treatment records and incomplete information regarding non-VA eye care providers.
- Claimed conditions
- right eye corneal scarring
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- November 4, 2020
- Citation
- 20071075
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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.
What you can do next
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Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
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- Remanded (sent back)
The Veteran's headaches are found to be prostrating and occurring on average at least once a month after September 14, 2021. The Board grants a 30 percent rating for his headaches starting from that date. Other issues related to the right eye corneal scarring, bilateral optic nerve atrophy, and knee/hip conditions are remanded.
- Dismissed
The Veteran's appeals for service connection for IgG4 autoimmune disease, increased ratings for diabetes mellitus and right eye corneal scarring, and an earlier effective date for the right eye corneal scarring have been dismissed due to withdrawal by the Veteran.
- Denied
The Board found no clear and unmistakable error in the July 1992 rating decision that assigned a noncompensable rating for right eye corneal scarring, as the evidence then of record supported the RO's interpretation.
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