The appeal is remanded to obtain additional records, including informed consent from the June 2007 right knee arthroplasty and any relevant private treatment records.
The deciding factor: Remand is necessary due to lack of substantial compliance with prior Board directives regarding obtaining informed consent and private treatment records.
- Claimed conditions
- Additional disability due to right total knee arthroplasty
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- October 13, 2021
- Citation
- 21063056
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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