The Veteran's claim for payment or reimbursement of medical expenses incurred from December 9, 2012, to December 12, 2012, at Yavapai Regional Medical Center (YRMC) is denied because the VA cannot make payment due to lack of information regarding coverage under a healthcare plan and exhaustion of remedies against such plan.
The deciding factor: The Veteran had coverage under a healthcare plan but there are no EOBs or other remittance documentation establishing whether the Veteran or YRMC exhausted without all remedies against his healthcare plan for payment of such treatment, what portion of the expenses in question were paid by his healthcare plan, and which, if any, portion of the expenses not paid constituted a copayment, deductible, or similar payment that VA is prohibited from paying under 38 U.S.C. § 1725(c)(4)(D).
- Claimed conditions
- Not specified in this decision
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- November 7, 2024
- Citation
- 24032770
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Decisions by this judge: 2,035 · Granted: 30% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
Judge attribution: 2025 complete; earlier years partial.
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