The Board granted a higher initial rating of 20 percent for left rib pain but denied an earlier effective date for the award of service connection.
The deciding factor: The Veteran's symptoms were found to be analogous to pain involving the muscles of respiration, warranting a maximum rating of 20 percent under DC 5321.
- Claimed conditions
- left rib pain
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 20%
- Decision date
- May 21, 2025
- Citation
- A25045905
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Decisions by this judge: 1,960 · Granted: 36% (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
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- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has remanded the Veteran's claims of service connection for various conditions due to new evidence submitted after the May 24, 2019 Statement of the Case.
- Granted
The VA has determined that the veteran's unauthorized medical expenses incurred on January 1, 2000 are eligible for reimbursement due to a medical emergency and because VA facilities were not feasibly available.
- Denied
The veteran's unauthorized medical expenses for a rib fracture were denied because VA facilities were feasibly available and there was no emergency condition.
- Denied
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