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hypertension Claim For "increase" And Medical Records
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Snake Eyes
I checked eBennies yesterday and found there was a new development letter for my claim which included TDIU application and new contentions for diabetes and complications.
1. The contentions listed the TDIU, diabetese and complications.... AND "increase" for the three issues I listed on the TDIU application. Are these requests for "increase" routine (as in do they consider listing those as reasons for the unemployability as requests for increase)?
2. A new development letter has been sent requesting medical records from a doctor named in the claim. I sent records from all doctors named in the claim, however one of them was from back in the 90s when they used vendor forms and the name of the practice is not on those forms. The file from which those were taken has since been archived and it takes months for them to get a document from their archive. Would the VA accept a letter from the practice stating that the forms were from their practice at the time the now deceased doctor practiced there?
If that is the doctor they're referring to (I haven't received the paper letter yet), his entries only show that I continued to have hypertension after I left the service. Since Dr. Bash did a good job of documenting that I had it in service and more recent doctor records (with doc name and practice included) show hypertension, is this doctor from "way back then" really necessary to my case?
3. This was a fully developed claim. If they request additional documentation, does that revert it back to being a traditional claim?
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