Va Press Release - Disability Benefits Questionaires

[hedgey]

I saw this discussed elsewhere, and thought it might be great news for some of us... especially when we're using a private doctor. This should make things more streamlined and uniform for the VA practitioners, and make it easier for a private doctor to cross all the VA t's.

Right?

Here's the headline & the link:

New Medical Forms Will Streamline Veterans Claims Process

Physician Questionnaires to Boost Disability Exam Efficiency

http://www1.va.gov/opa/pressrel/pressrelease.cfm?id=1987

The part I like:

For Veterans who receive their care from private physicians, VA has placed the disability benefits questionnaires on its Internet site (http://www.vba.va.gov/disabilityexams) with instructions for physicians to submit examination results on Veterans’ behalf.

There's a "remarks" section where a private doctor could write in the Nexus Statement. If the VA will accept this form as a true evaluation, then they should accept any nexus that it contains, right?

[Berta]

http://www.nvlsp.org/Information/ArticleLibrary/AgentOrange/AO-aoinkorea.htm

There is no date to this NVLSP link and I believe more units were added to it and will check in the new VBM and reply with what I find out.

[Teac]

Berta

Would you happen to have the time frame and units for Korean vets, or where I could find it?

Check these links :

http://www.vetshome.com/agent_orange_3.htm

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0LIY/is_4_91/ai_112687395/

http://www.nvlsp.org/Information/ArticleLibrary/AgentOrange/AO-aoinkorea.htm

[Berta]

This link refers directly to M21-1MR as the 2010 VBM does -as to units stationed in areas along the southside of the civilian control line on the DMZ,Korea from April 1968 to July 1969:

http://veteransinfo.tripod.com/herbicide_agents.pdf

Also AO was stored on Johnston Island (confirmed by DOD) from April 1972 to Sept 1977 per the M21-1MR.

[cooter]

Great, Thanks!