The Board remands the claims for further development of evidence, including obtaining private treatment records.
The deciding factor: Remand is necessary to obtain outstanding private treatment records relevant to the Veteran's rheumatoid arthritis issues on appeal.
- Claimed conditions
- right shoulder rheumatoid arthritis, left shoulder rheumatoid arthritis, left hip rheumatoid arthritis, right ankle rheumatoid arthritis, right hip greater trochanter bursitis with rheumatoid arthritis, right knee patellofemoral syndrome with rheumatoid arthritis, left hip rheumatoid arthritis with limitation of abduction
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- March 26, 2025
- Citation
- A25028258
Veterans Law Judge
Decisions by this judge: 916 · Granted: 40% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
Judge attribution: 2025 complete; earlier years partial.
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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.
- Dismissed
Your service connection for painful scar, left shoulder and left shoulder status post Bankart/SLAP repair has been granted. The effective date is April 3, 2018.
- Dismissed
The Veteran passed away before the Board could make a decision on her service connection claims for rheumatoid arthritis and Sjogren's syndrome. Her appeal is dismissed due to her death.
- Denied
The Board denied the Veteran's claims for earlier effective dates for service connection of various rheumatoid arthritis conditions, finding that no formal claim was submitted within one year of her intent to file and that she did not submit a completed VA Form 21-526EZ as required.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Veteran's service-connected rheumatoid arthritis and related disabilities are found to prevent him from working, and the case is being referred for extraschedular consideration.
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