The Board has remanded the Veteran's claims for additional development due to insufficient medical evidence and inextricably intertwined TDIU claim.
The deciding factor: Insufficient medical evidence to determine the severity of right hip neurological issues, necessitating a VA examination.
- Claimed conditions
- Degenerative Joint Disease, Right Hip, Neurological Issues (associated with right hip disability)
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- February 14, 2023
- Citation
- 23009449
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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
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Denied
The Board has denied the petitions to reopen previously denied claims for service connection of degenerative joint disease, right knee and left knee. The issues of entitlement to initial compensable ratings for right hip limitation of flexion, abduction, adduction, and internal/external rotation prior to March 1, 2018, and in excess of 10 percent thereafter; a rating in excess of 10 percent for degenerative joint disease, right hip; and a rating in excess of 20 percent for radiculopathy, right lower extremity; and residuals of a low back injury are dismissed.
- Granted
The Board has granted service connection for degenerative joint disease of the left hip, right hip, left knee, and back. The decision affirms that these conditions are related to the Veteran's active military service.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Veteran's appeal for increased disability evaluations of his service-connected right hip, right knee, and left knee disabilities is being remanded due to the need for additional examinations and assessments.
- Denied
The Board denied the veteran's claims for increased ratings for his service-connected lumbar myositis, psychoneurosis and conversion hysteria, residuals of shrapnel wounds of the left thigh and pelvis with retained foreign bodies and scars, and residuals of shell fragment wounds of the right thigh and left leg. The veteran was also denied entitlement to a total disability rating based on individual unemployability due to service-connected disabilities.
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