Partly granted
The veteran's claim for a temporary total evaluation due to hospital treatment exceeding 21 days was denied. The claims for service connection for degenerative arthritis of the thoracolumbar spine and a cervical spine condition were remanded.
The deciding factor: The Board found that domiciliary care does not qualify as hospitalization under the relevant regulations, and there were predecisional duty-to-assist errors in evaluating the service connection claims.
- Claimed conditions
- degenerative arthritis of the thoracolumbar spine, cervical spine condition
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- January 13, 2025
- Citation
- A25002875
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