Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the issues of increased ratings for right knee disabilities and service connection for opioid use disorder, as well as a TDIU claim, due to deficiencies in the current evidence.
The deciding factor: Remand is required to provide additional medical examinations that comply with DeLuca v. Brown standards and address the potential secondary nature of the Veteran's opioid use disorder.
- Claimed conditions
- right knee, limitation of extension, degenerative joint disease medial compartment, status post meniscectomy right knee with traumatic arthritis, calcified mass of the suprapatellar bursa (right knee DJD), opioid use disorder
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- February 3, 2025
- Citation
- A25009532
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