TBI vets scammed by VA

[Berta]

"VA issued a statement following exposure of a scam at Minneapolis VA where unqualified doctors were posing as qualified doctors and denying claims for traumatic brain injury. In a statement, VA claims it “greatly regrets” having unqualified doctors misdiagnose brain injury.

This is a follow up story from KARE 11 NBC about a brain injury scandal I uncovered being committed at the facility. Veterans seeking service connection for traumatic brain injury (TBI) residuals were not receiving exams from qualified doctors despite clear guidelines to not do that.

RELATED: VA Caught Defrauding 300 Veterans With Brain Injuries

The story is unfolding across the nation and reporter AJ Lagoe is chasing down leads to expose this national scandal. In Minnesota (through the Minneapolis VA.

Source: www.disabledvets.org (Ben Krause's site)

Edited August 14, 2015 by Berta

[pwrslm]

One would think that, in a non adversarial atmosphere, if you would provide the VA with a board certified specialists opinion, that they would have no need to pursue an opinion of any other provider, as long as the opinion is not blatantly fraudulent.

With the experience that millions of claims tying injuries to benefit conclusions provides, it is fairly simple to come to a conclusion that xx in a military record doing xx after discharge over a specific time frame is a reasonable claim that should not require an elevated level of investigation if there is already a quality opinion on the issue in hand.

When the RO goes shopping for opposing opinions, the non adversarial nature of the claim is removed.  I would suppose that this same tactic is used over other issues as well, seeing that such a high number of appeals succeed after initial rating denials.

Edited August 15, 2015 by pwrslm