What did you do to get approved for 2nd S.A.?

[Buck52]

If you been approved for a secondary to any of your SC Disability or multi Disability's for OSA S.A. and also was diagnosed by the VA for OSA /S.A. &(currently using a VA CPAP Machine  and you filed a claim for S.A OSA for secondary to one of these disabilities & was approved SC & a rating

what did you submit in support of the S.A Claim? what help you the most to be approved..or what was in  WHAT WE DECIDED?

This would be very helpful if a lot of you veterans will speak up to help other veterans having a hard time getting SA. SC and rated for it.

Much Thanks in Advance 

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

[Buck52]

Bump  Bump!!!

[Gastone]

A successful SA Secondary claim, is all about the VA or Private SA Specialists opinion as to "Possible Etiology."  Is your DX'd SA, "More likely than not," directly attributable to your claimed SC?

Last I looked, there were about 11 things listed as possible causes of SA in most medical literature.

All Dr's, MD or DO, are educated as to SA symptoms, causes, testing and treatment. while in Medical School. Then you have the SA Experts, that are Board Certified and spend the majority of their Medical Career DXing and treating the (3) Forms of SA, OSA, CSA and MSA.

To be successful with a Secondary SA claim, a Vet needs the opinion of a SA Specialist, to trump a C & P Dr's possible negative SC Exam. 

All Dr's, in general, are reluctant to contradict another Dr's DX, especially if the other Dr is a Board Certified Specialist concerning the DX in question.

I got my SA SC'd on the 1st try, based strictly on my non-VA SA Specialist's Clinician notes, NO DBQ needed. I don't actually recall ever having a SA C & P. Rater refered to my DR's Clinician Notes as the Evidence for Award.

Another Hadit Vet, Toddt, was successful with his SA DRO Hearing, based on clinician notes from the same Neurologist SA Specialist. As I recall, he didn't have a DBQ either, strictly well written Clinician Notes from his 1st and only Appointment. Total cost, Office call and Deductible.

Happy Easter

Semper Fi

 

[Andyman73]

Thanks, Gastone,

Semper Fi.

[Corpsman8404]

Gastone,

Hopefully, I will be in that class of "success stories" for SA secondary to something, in a few months.  My VA sleep Dr wouldn't opine on secondary to PTSD (figures), so I had a Board Certified Sleep Specialist/Pulmonary Dr state "more than likely as not" secondary to my PTSD.  This guy was extremely helpful, and shook his head when I mentioned my VA doc didn't think it was possible. Office visit, conversation, price of deductible also!

 

I have it sitting in an "intent to file" along with a PTSD increase and IU request that I have until August to push the button on, in Ebennies.  (I am on STD from work since Dec, and just applied for SSDI, figuring the SSDI would also help with IU)

I am hoping that my Nexus from that doc, AND a DBQ he did, AND my Dx with CPAP use.....will make it possible.  God knows it should, but we shall see...

Edited March 30, 2016 by Corpsman8404