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Rate Calculator
I'm not sure if I am using the rate calculator correctly. I have 3 disabilities, 20% back, 20% knee, and 10% ankle and foot. When I enter the 3 figures into the rate calculator it gives me a combined rating of 42.4%. The VA pay's me at the 40% rate, is this correct or should they round up to the next highest percent? Also, on my last eligibility print out it stated the above 3 ratings, 20%, 20% & 10%, then it listed a 00% for a lower leg condition which was not service connected. When I inquired about the 00% rating they simply removed it from my statement. Would that 00% have affected anything? Thanks for your help.
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ptsd C&p Exam
I have been helping one of my Nam buddies with his claim ( PTSD, Hearing Loss, Tinnitus ). Everything seems to be moving along nicely and on time. He had a C&P exam for (PTSD only ) approx. 35 days ago. I advised him to have a copy of the exam pulled, which he did do. I like what I have read ( on more than one cccasion it says Combat related service connected for PTSD. He has not yet received an award letter, which I believe to be forth coming ( C&P exam only 35 days ago ). I would like to know if any body can shed some light on a few satatements that were written by the DR. for the examination report. The following are quotes from the report that I would li…
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M21-1mr
GET IT WHILE YOU CAN !!! M21-1MR
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Service Officer Makes Good Argument
I had a long discussion with my new SO and he has convenced me that I should ask for a reconsideration of my claim of 2004, which would be supported by the old evidence of record and with the more recent evidence from 2004 untill now. His argument being that I would stand a much better chance of getting Service connection by getting them to conduct a C&P exam by a Board Certified Psychiatrist along with his own opinion of nexus of all the evidence to the diagnosis in service and now. It should take considerable less time than a CUE claim answering the best part of the Claim and that is SC. Giving me still the opertunity to argue for a EED using the CUE to do th…
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Cue - New C & P Exam Scheduled
I've filed a CUE claim and just received notice that a new C & P exam is required. Can anyone tell me why I would need a new exam when any new evidence isn't supposed to be used in a CUE?
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Va Primary Care Team Is Helping Out.
We got good news today. My husband's new primary care team is cooperating with him in writing a letter to the RO confirming his conditions. That will be three doctors saying it's so. B) The PVA said a letter from a VA doctor confirming the conditions (since he couldn't go for the exam) could very well reverse the denial. The PVA SO thinks he should be at the R2 level, as do we. At first, they were just going to put a statement in his medical record, but today they said they are working on a letter and will mail it to us. Sure hope this turns it around. At least, it's not in the pile for a long appeal just yet. The PVA said BVA appeals are five years out now. Anyon…
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Want To Know The Electronic Process Of A C&p?
AMIE V. 2.7 Medical Administration Service User Manual
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Accounting Flaws Found In Audit Of Va
From Ray B Davis---- VETERANS RESOURECES NETWORK http://www.valaw.org Accounting Flaws Found at VA Associated Press | February 03, 2006 WASHINGTON - Eager to reduce spending, the Bush administration falsely claimed savings of more than $1.3 billion in the Department of Veterans Affairs to justify cuts to health care services, congressional investigators say. The report by the Government Accountability Office is the latest to document funding woes at the VA, which currently offers health care to 7 million out of 24 million eligible veterans. It found that the agency used misleading accounting methods and lacked documentation to prove its claimed savi…
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Documentation Library For Vista (veterans Health Information Systems & Technology Architecture), Previously Known As Dhcp (decentralized Hospital Comp
Wouldn’t be great to tell that BONEHEAD in medical records where to go to generate a report you need, how to get there and how to print it? VISTA library is packed full of info tech manuals and SOP designed specifically for reference for those BONEHEADS. We all know that the IQ level of those BONEHEADS nowhere compares to the well informed/educated veteran. So browse, learn how and why, learn how to get what is legally available to you. The next time you go to your VAMC tell the BONEHEADS what you want NOW!! There is a lot more really cool stuff here, enjoy. Documentation Library for VISTA (Veterans Health Information Systems & Technology Architecture), previous…
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Ro's
Would it be beneficial to create a listing of RO's and then have board members post their knowledge of their RO? We could have it broken down by region and then State and then RO. Or what ever the structure is. This way we may be able to determine patterns and processes. If one person has success using a unique method for presenting information then others could mimic it and perhaps obtain better results sooner. Just an idea and it would really need to be a case where things were posted in a positive light. I'm sure there is a lot of well founded anger but we need to find ways to help others get what they need. Just an idea.
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What Is Happening With The 1151
Greetings fellow members of Hadit. If we have not had the chance to share on Hadit you will have to excuse my negligence. Like you members who have been or who are going through the claims process, we all know the step backs and push off 's we get when trying to receive approvals on various levels of our clams. While the story is rather long and complex I´d love just for a few moments share with you on how long I have been pushing their buttons and they mine. To briefly fill you in, I have been fighting with the Veterans Administration since 1995 when I found out a medical error was made and that knowledge nearly co…
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"lay Person"
Why is it that when a veteran or someone supporting him makes a opinion on a medical issue the reply from VA is "a lay person may not make opinions that which only a competent medical authority has the training to make. However, when the VA (rater, DRO or whoever) opines that a medical opinion obtained from a medical doctor does not support the claimed disability it is taken as word from above and there is no way to refute such an opinion. In the true meaning of the VA's definition of "lay person" ALL VA employees (except medical staff) are lay persons. Why then are they allowed to opine negatively on medical opinions issued by doctors?
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