QTC/IMA exam question

[DevilDog12]

How long does it take QTC/IMA to send exam results to VA for rating?  I had a C&P on Friday with them, and another for an increase tomorrow.  

[Navy4life]

I had my C&P exams with a QTC facility on 2/4/16 and they were received by the VA on 2/18/16.  You can check on Ebennies for C&P exams and see if they are pending or complete.  It is under the appointment calendar.  I figured this trick out last year.

As far as your exams, they are not available on MyHealthyVets, but I was told if you go to the VBA at the local VA hospital and ask for them they will give a copy to you.  Worth a shot....

[DevilDog12]

Thanks!  I wasn't sure if they were sent right away, or sent via snail mail.  I'm just glad to get these out of the way.

[broncovet]

C and P exam results are available to Veterans ONLY WHEN VA will release them.  YOur VA may/may not release a recent c and p exam.  Yes, this is maddening.  Its your exam.  But VA paid for it, so they own it, not you.  

If you paid for your own exam, then you would own it, just like you own your own car, and can open the hood, look in the trunk, or the glove compartment, and read anything you like there.  

But if this is my car, and I paid for it, I can decide if I permit you to look in my trunk, my glove compartment, or use my laptop that I have in the trunk.  If you are my wife, or my friend, I can simply give you the key and allow you to look anywhere in my car.  But if you are unknown to me, I probably wont give you my car keys and access to my computer, unless there was an exceptional or compelling reason.

 

Edited February 22, 2016 by broncovet

[Buck52]

broncovet

Although the VA Paid for the exam   they still don't own us and we have a right to any information they get on us.

usually 2 weeks or so after a VA C&P  Performed at the VAMC and confirmed  a veteran can check with information & records release desk

if a C&P is contracted out such as QTC, Then usually after a decision is made or close to 30 days  the Veteran can go to his VBA (Veterans benefits Administration ) office and request the C&P Results report  they can make  free copie's....that's what I did.

I advise a veteran to get his C&P ASAP and start to gather favorable evidence according to his C&P If it looks unfavorable .

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

[Navy4life]

I agree with Buck that the VA doesn't "own" the C&P exams.  Sure they ordered them but we do have the right to review them.  I never understood why the QTC exams were such a big deal to get when we can see the C&P exams from the VA examiners on MyHealthyVets.  I think the QTC exams should be available to us...

Thanks to Buck, I am going to see if I get lucky tomorrow and get mine from the VBA at the VA hospital.  I am in PFD so not sure reviewing it now will make a difference for me or not but it would be nice to see it before a claim is decided in case there is an error and the Veteran could fix the error before the claim is decided.

[ArNG11]

I have been on both sides of that coin. If the exams were done at the VAMC then yes they will be available via blue button download on eVet or a walk down to FOIA office at the VAMC.  When they are outsourced such as VES or QTC then you must put in a FOIA request to the VA. 

My suggestion, if I may offer it, is to wait until the decision is made on your claim.  Yes, curiosity will sit on your chest like an elephant, however, by requesting an FOIA for a C&P exam while the claim is still being decided will undoubtably delay the decision making process. Don't give the VA the opportunity to delay the claim even longer, VA takes already what seems to be an eternity to adjudicate a claim anyhow.  Ask for the copy of the exam after a decision. If the exam is a bogus exam you won't be hard pressed to prove that it is.  Give the VA the rope to hang themselves, you still have the whole year to appeal the decision during the NOD period.  Which gives a Veteran, a claimant, more than enough time  to refute the exam with an impartial unbiased and thorough exam from a specialist or long term doctor.  Probative evidence, even probative evidence that is in your C file that was ignored.

JMO