How Can A Veteran Prove Va Went Doctor Shopping?

[pacmanx1]

I pulled this from another post; I would like to know how a veteran can prove that VA went doctor shopping. I am trying to prepare for my rating decision for sleep apnea. I have a neurologist that says I have sleep apnea related to my service connected Depression and I just had two additional C & P exams. The physical C & P exam says that my sleep apnea is caused by me being obese. The mental C& P exam says that my sleep apnea is caused by my daily anxiety which is severe and my daily depression which is moderate but combined with the anxiety makes my condition worst. I also have two sleep studies one I thought diagnosed me but it is inconclusive but I do have one that proves I have sleep apnea. I am thinking that VA will try to go with the negative C & P exam Instead of my diagnosis from my neurologist and my mental C & P exam and they were all VA doctors. Any help or pointers, I know I am jumping the gun but I really do not trust VA to do anything right. I was denied my claim for sleep apnea, I then went to VA and got an exam from my sleep study and I was diagnosed with sleep apnea, then all of a sudden, I get two C & P exams instead on one. If this is confusing my apologies, I twisted my neck and spine last week and it is giving me hell.

Carlie, I miss your post: VA SUCKS

[allan]

I had a VA C&P examiner service connect me for all the issues I was claiming since all health conditions were consistant since seperation from service in 1971.

Four months later the VARO claimed they never recieved the medical opinion from the examiner and ordered an IMO from a paid staff consultant at another VAMC with out an examination. The medical opinion stated I never had any medical complaints until the 1990's and denied service connection.

The VARO took the paid consultants opin and denied the claim three days later without ever notifying me or my SO of the IMO request or alowing any time to dispute it.

The following decade was nothing but Dr shoping everytime I sent in an IMO. Just last year I won one of the issues after the BVA ordered yet another IMO from the VAMC ortho clinic I was treated at and it came back favorable. I would have likely won the rest of the issues, but the BVA failed to include those in the IMO request.

So the mojority of the rest of the issues denied in 1998, are now at CAVC waiting to be heard before one of the four judges the VA so generously gives us for the more than a million vet backlog.

My guess is the claimed issues will be remanded beck to the BVA to do what they failed to do in the first place. Than remanded back to the VAMC to rate.

They will take whatever opinion it takes to deny or provide the lesser rateing, reguardless of whether you have a neuro specialist & they use an RN.

It's "ALL" about the money.

[pacmanx1]

I had a VA C&P examiner service connect me for all the issues I was claiming since all health conditions were consistant since seperation from service in 1971.

Four months later the VARO claimed they never recieved the medical opinion from the examiner and ordered an IMO from a paid staff consultant at another VAMC with out an examination. The medical opinion stated I never had any medical complaints until the 1990's and denied service connection.

The VARO took the paid consultants opin and denied the claim three days later without ever notifying me or my SO of the IMO request or alowing any time to dispute it.

The following decade was nothing but Dr shoping everytime I sent in an IMO. Just last year I won one of the issues after the BVA ordered yet another IMO from the VAMC ortho clinic I was treated at and it came back favorable. I would have likely won the rest of the issues, but the BVA failed to include those in the IMO request.

So the mojority of the rest of the issues denied in 1998, are now at CAVC waiting to be heard before one of the four judges the VA so generously gives us for the more than a million vet backlog.

My guess is the claimed issues will be remanded beck to the BVA to do what they failed to do in the first place. Than remanded back to the VAMC to rate.

They will take whatever opinion it takes to deny or provide the lesser rateing, reguardless of whether you have a neuro specialist & they use an RN.

It's "ALL" about the money.

I am quite sure there is a lot more to your post but for my situation, VA has always known of my conditions but my problem over the years was to figure out what has been going on. I had all the symptoms on active duty and I started being treated By VA a year after I got out, VA has already acknowledged that I have/had a sleep disorder, they just don't want to call it sleep apnea. It may be all about the money to them but I know what I am entitled to and they will have to award me for sleep apnea sooner or later. If it is sooner then I can try to relax and move on and if it is later then I plan to stick around to get it.