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[john999]

Is spending $100 a year worth it to join the Vet's Law Blog Premium service?  I may be filing a OSA claim and I am going to need plenty of help.  I lost my long time psychologist to sickness and old age.   I need all the help I can get to go forward  these days.  I am running as fast as I can just to stay in one place.

[jbasser]

Gentlemen,As Tbird said, lets keep this discussion civil. Just remember this, Mr. Cripps was the first Veteran to actually win his AO claim based on exposure to Agent Orange inside the Continental US. His methods worked or him and it is working for others. As an advocate for veterans, I have used local and specialty IMO doctors.The big question is not which doctor you use but how the IMO is written. Now for a local doctor that changes the game as it becomes an IME as the Doctor actually lays eyes on you. That ups the game. AN IME is the key here. Now a veteran must lug your claims folder and history with you because if he or she doesn't state they have reviewed the entire history, then the VA can use a Nurse Practitioner to offset the opinion. There is no right wy or wrong way to get a Medical opinion but one should always seek to be examined. A good point from ASKNOD on last nights show reinforces what I have posted on Hadit for years. If you need an IMO, contact any SSA disability attorney and ask them who they use for their IMO's. These guys always have someone attached and it is usually an occupational specialist who by-the-way, are hard to beat since the Occupational specialty is geared towards your disabilities in  a working environment. This is how the entire VA disability system s set up. It is based on the working economy. 

Now lets be civil, we are all on the same team.

 

Jbasser

 

[Buck52]

Inarticulate&Distorted

You should listen to James Cripps  

you might learn a thing or two on how to work your claims ,James has been there and done that, he has a lot of experience in getting our claims won.

• Listen to him on the Hadit Blog Talk Radio Show sometimes  or go back to the Achives and listen to him, they had him on not to long ago.
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[syne7]

I have already used them.  Dr. Ellis is a nice man and very passionate about helping veterans.

[Buck52]

Matter Fact

I need to find a Dr like James had when he was granted

ORDER Entitlement to service connection for hypertension is granted. Entitlement to sleep apnea is granted.

Also in his BVA decision  they granted James

sleep apnea as being proximately due to the service connected ischemic heart disease. 38 C.F.R. § 3.310(a).

I was going to file S.A. Claim  secondary to PTSD but can't get any Docs to nexus the two

I go see cardiology today after they did Nuclear Stress Test on me a couple weeks ago  they found something abnormality's or something ? not sure , I should know more after today!

I am 100% plus SMC S H.B. for profound Hearing loss and 70% Chronic PTSD

but

I have two more issues with VA ..Sleep Apnea Claim & E.D. Claim...get those then I'm done with 'em...

I served in Vietnam Also...2 tours

 

Edited October 13, 2016 by Buck52

[syne7]

6 hours ago, Inarticulate&Distorted said:

 

Educate yourself before spreading your bullshit advice, any one that tells a Veteran to not go all the way or go home is a phukin Shill for the VA.

 

Let's not do this sort of thing.  People can have different opinions.

[syne7]

11 hours ago, jamescripps2 said:

John, type into your web browser

usva101.0rg

click on nexus letter, print the two page document.

Copy the case that I gave you in the above post. http://www.va.gov/vetapp14/Files6/1449192.txt Highlight the text pertaining to the doctors medical opinion in the case, therefore simplifying and saving your doctor's valuable time.

Take the copies to a private doctor and pay the co pay using your medicare if you have medicare coverage. If not, expect to pay about 80 to 100 bucks cash for a medical opinion. I have found that about 50% of the doctors will write an opinion if you ask and make it easy on them by furnishing an example,"outline", and another opinion close to what you are contending.

Ask the doc if he can concur with what the examiner in the BVA prior decision is saying. If so, ask if he will write you a letter complying to the nexus letter example that you are furnishing him from the usva101.org website. After filing the claim as a  FDC, for OSA sit back and wait on the C&P exam.

 

This is great advice.  I really appreciate it.  I have used IME doctors because I find it so difficult to get "regular" doctors to write notes.  They freak out LOL.