Your claims for service connection and increased ratings are being returned to the agency that initially handled your claim for review. They will consider all new evidence, including a recent VA examination of your knees.
The deciding factor: New evidence has been added to the record since the last decision, which may affect the outcome of your claims.
- Claimed conditions
- urothelial carcinoma of the bladder, meniscal tear of the right knee with tear lateral cartilage
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating
- Not verified here — check the original decision
- Decision date
- September 6, 2023
- Citation
- 23049055
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What this means for you
A remand sends an issue back for more development, often a new examination or missing records. It does not award the benefit or decide the final outcome. The original decision explains the additional work ordered.
What you can do next
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Denied
The Board denied a higher disability rating for the Veteran's meniscal tear of the right knee prior to December 30, 2020 and denied a compensable rating for his scar residuals. The claim for service connection for urothelial carcinoma of the bladder was dismissed as it has been fully granted.
- Granted
The Board has determined that the Veteran's urothelial carcinoma of the bladder is related to his in-service exposure to environmental toxins, specifically from working as an apprentice firefighter at Otis Air Force Base in Massachusetts. As a result, service connection for this condition is granted.
- 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.
- Denied
The Board denied the Veteran's claim for an initial evaluation in excess of 10 percent for his service-connected coronary artery disease, finding that the evidence did not support a higher rating based on the severity of his condition.
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