Award Letter And Future Evaluations

[jhman]

In my award letter there was a statement made saying "an examination will be scheduled at a future date to evaluate the severity of my service connected DDD l4,l5" I thought that was what the C&P's, other doctors were about? Does anyone know how soon these are scheduled years? months? Or these done periodically and do they effect your rating? If there is already a decision why have they scheduled this? thanks for any input.. Airborne

[Vync]

I have a question if you know, I was denied on 4 other claims for different injuries. If I sent the letter of disagreement for these and had new evidence for the denied claims within the year deadline would this effect my other claims that were SC in the initial claim. Debating on what I should do, thank you for any input!!

You never really know. I had several SC conditions that were 15+ yrs old and recently sent in some new claims. During the general medical exam, never once did the doc bring up any of those conditions. I got the new conditions SC without any change to the older ones. For one of the new ones, my award letter said I will be reviewed again in the future due to expected improvement. I checked with the C&P team and they have me scheduled exactly 12 months from my effective date for a re-eval. I marked my calendar for the appt.