Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the issue of the propriety of reducing the veteran's disability rating for his back condition from 20 percent to 10 percent, effective June 3, 2024, due to an inadequate pre-decisional medical examination.
The deciding factor: A remand is necessary to correct a pre-decisional error where the AOJ failed to obtain an adequate medical examination.
- Claimed conditions
- lower thoracic scoliosis with degenerative disc disease
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- December 16, 2025
- Citation
- A25108636
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