The appeal for payment of non-VA medical care provided by Mississippi Baptist Medical Center on June 15, 2019, is dismissed.
The deciding factor: Benefit Recovery, which did not furnish the underlying medical care in question, cannot file a VA Form 10182 as a claimant and no completed VA Form 10182 has been received by the Board.
- Claimed conditions
- Not specified in this decision
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- March 25, 2025
- Citation
- A25027367
What this means for you
A dismissal means the Board did not decide the issue on its merits — usually because it was withdrawn or had become moot. It says more about procedure than about whether a claim like this can win.
What you can do next
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