The Board has found that the VA examination during the appeal period is insufficient to determine the severity and manifestations of the Veteran's hip disabilities throughout the appeal period. Therefore, a remand is required for an addendum retrospective medical opinion.
The deciding factor: The only VA examination report does not include all findings necessary to evaluate the severity and manifestations of the Veteran's disabilities.
- Claimed conditions
- left hip osteoarthritis with trochanteric bursitis, right hip osteoarthritis with trochanteric bursitis
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- October 31, 2023
- Citation
- A23030279
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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.
- Partly granted
The Board granted the restoration of a 10 percent disability rating for right hip osteoarthritis with trochanteric bursitis, but denied an increased rating in excess of 10 percent.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has remanded the Veteran's claims for increased rating and service connection due to inadequate prior examinations. The Veteran is seeking a higher rating for his lumbar spine disability, which was previously denied in January 2021. He also seeks service connection for left hip osteoarthritis with trochanteric bursitis.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Veteran's lumbar spine disability was previously rated at 10 percent prior to October 17, 2019 and is now denied for a rating in excess of that level.,Since October 17, 2019, the Veteran's lumbar spine disability has been rated at 20 percent and remains denied.
- 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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