The Board has remanded the Veteran's claims for service connection due to insufficient medical opinions and potential need for additional examination or development under the PACT Act.
The deciding factor: The decision is based on inadequate medical opinions regarding the etiology of the claimed conditions, necessitating further evaluation and consideration.
- Claimed conditions
- boils, cysts on the back and buttocks
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- December 18, 2023
- Citation
- 23066635
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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.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has remanded the claims for service connection due to insufficient medical opinions and potential need for additional development under the PACT Act.
- Denied
The Board denied the Veteran's claim for service connection for boils and scars on his back and left shoulder because there is no competent evidence of a current diagnosis of these conditions.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has determined that a remand is necessary to obtain an addendum opinion regarding the etiology of hidradenitis suppurativa with scars, claimed as boils.
- Granted
The Veteran's service-connected boils are rated at a noncompensable level, but the Board has granted an initial compensable rating of 10% based on intermittent systemic therapy for less than six weeks during the past year.
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