should I wait to file another claim since I recently had c&p but no decision?

[oz]

I had an appointment with outside nephrologist after CABG (8 blockages and quadruple bypass) and after c&p for coronary problems (c&p was10 days ago). The kidney specialist diagnosed acute renal failure and stage 4 kidney disease. Should I wait to file (I have dbq from kidney doctor and pertinent files from local VAMC supporting his diagnosis with one instance of VAMC doc giving same diagnosis in notes.

Should I wait for decision on first claim before filing this claim?

 

[broncovet]

Im not quite sure if you are asking if you should file a NEW calim, for a diffeent condtion, or if you should refile the one you already filed.  

1.  Filing for a new condition:  File.  If you wait, it will cost you money on retroactive payments on the new condition.  Waiting to file after your current claim is complete may/or may not slow down your current  claim.  VA uses any excuse possible to delay, anyway.  With the new electronics claim system, if yours has been digitalized, it should not be a problem to work on both at once, like it was with a "single" paper file, as one piece of paper can not be in 2 places at once.  That is not a problem with electronic records.  

2.  Refiling your old condition.  Not recommended.  It will confuse VA, who is easily confused.  Instead, send an "IRIS" inquiring as to the status of your claim.  Wait a couple weeks or so on their response, even tho they are supposed to be faster than that.  Keep a copy of that email and their response in a safe place.  You may need it, but hopefully not.  

[Carl the Engineer]

I beleive with VA's new rule a year ago, if you file a claim while a claim is pending, it becomes part of the pending claim.  For me, if my pending claim was fairly new, if would file the new claim.  If my claim was in the works for a while, I would wait to file the new claim.

I am not too sure how the new "intent to file" in eBenifits works, re: the new rule.  I do know it secures you a date.

If you can financially wait it out, I would file anything and everything when it became appearent.  That way you get the earliest dates possible for each claim, but the may put them together, delaying your first claim (and any money), etc.

I personally, wait until the current claim(s) come back and are finished before I submit a new claim.  Sometimes (it happened to me) the closed claim will have information for your new claim.

I had a C&P examiner suggest two claims, and I did wait until the claim I was there for was finished to submit for the two she referenced.  Two wins.

Thanks,

Hamslice

 

 

[Buck52]

 I believe if you file an Intent to file  and within a year you file that claim   the intent to file is your EED,

If you file ''another claim''  a claim that don't pertain to your current claim   then The date you file for a new claim is your EED date for that claim.

I think when they said if you file a claim when you have a claim pending  that claim will be added to your existing claim  only if that claim is secondary or pertains to your existing claim.

that's the way I understand it?  I could be wrong,

  its hard to understand when they say if you file a new claim during your process of an existing claim  they will combined to the two claims into one  but that don't make a lick of sense to me  if the claims are completely different?

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................Buck

[Vync]

Buck is correct. The Intent to File gives you 12 months to submit the evidence. If the VA happens to get you your other claims in the meantime, they should process it and leave the new claim in deferred/waiting for evidence status. Well, that's the way I understand it.