FDC vs standard claim evidence requirements

[chomperjones]

So i know that and FDC requires you to submit all of your evidence of front.

Now does this mean that i have to send in all of my medical records as well ior will the va get those?

[Berta]

Just to remind all ( we get many non member guests reading these posts)

The VA will NOT accept any PTSD diagnosis from non VA doctors, per the 2010 PTSD regulations for all initial PTSD claims filed after July 2010.

The diagnosis Must come from a VA MH professional. 

A LMSW is not a MH professional....for PTSD claims...Only a VA psychologist or VA psychiatrist is.

[Buck52]

Ms berta

A VA L.C.S.W certified  can fill out the PTSD  DBQ it says it on the DBQ Form  a long as HE/SHE is under the guide-ness of a VA MH professional or Dr.Specialist 

 Now of course a rater may not take that as probative evidence b/c a l.C.S.W is not qualified to render his/her opinion?

So it makes it hard for veterans to understand  why  because on the DBQ it states  a L.C.S.W Can fill out the DBQ.

The VA needs to amend this  or explain it better.

I think all DBQ's should be filled out at the C&P with the veteran present.

Edited December 4, 2016 by Buck52

[Berta]

Buck said:

Ms berta

"A VA L.C.S.W certified  can fill out the PTSD  DBQ it says it on the DBQ Form  a long as HE/SHE is under the guide-ness of a VA MH professional or Dr.Specialist " of course...you are right and I am wrong...

" Now of course a rater may not take that as probative evidence b/c a l.C.S.W is not qualified to render his/her opinion?"

I would think VA would question a non VA LCSW's opinion if it is a diagnosis of PTSD,unless a VA MH professional agrees with it.

I had been breezing over an odd denial at the BVA yesterday. But I didnt read it well enough.

"THE ISSUE

Entitlement to service connection for a psychiatric disability, to include posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

 

 

REPRESENTATION

 

Veteran represented by:    Disabled American Veterans

 

 

WITNESSES AT HEARING ON APPEAL

 

Veteran and R.S., a licensed clinical social worker

In part the case states:

“The evidence substantiates a current diagnosis of PTSD by a psychiatrist based on DSM-IV.”

 

"ORDER

Service connection for a psychiatric disability, to include PTSD, is denied."

http://www.index.va.gov/search/va/view.jsp?FV=http://www.va.gov/vetapp16/Files2/1609982.txt

(I had though the BVA had rejected the prior non VA diagnosis of this veteran....but regardless of diagnosis of PTSD from Non VA and also VA MH providers, the stressors were never proven and that is why the veteran was denied.)

I Stand corrected Buck! Thank you.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited December 5, 2016 by Berta

[Buck52]

None of the L.C.S.W here at my VMC Won't fill one out,,,my C&P Examiner was a License Phyistrist PHD  She filled out the DBQ PTSD for me...but I had been diagnose with chronic PTSD from VA MH Dr's

its probably a good thing a LCSW never filled one out  or I might have been denied too?