odd C-File Contents question

[GeekySquid]

Here is an odd question about the C-file.

Is EVERYTHING done by the VAMC supposed to end up in your C-file?

I do mean everything.

The reason I ask, is that in other posts here I have mentioned missing records from the VAMC New Orleans.

When I saw my new VA Primary Care Doc for the first time, she asked tons of questions, which was great.

In answer to one of them I mentioned that the VAMC New Orleans lost a bunch of my records and I was pissed about it.

She had her unit's Social Worker call me to offer assistance on the issue.

It turns out there is something called the Joint Legacy Viewer, which is an application that has insight into every medical record the VA has on you no matter what system it is in. Apparently there are several different systems your records could be in depending on location and year you were seen.

When I went yesterday for a follow up on my foot surgery, I went to the Social Workers office and in a couple minutes he pulled up a set of treatment notes about the VNG I had for my vertigo back in 2013 that VAMC New Orleans says is "lost".

Those notes are not in my c-file.

So I am curios if anyone knows if some files are not put in the c-file. These notes I found don't follow the typical format that VAMC uses and happens to list the Procedure Codes associated with each treatment or test done. For example for the Vertigo they list procedures 92540 through 92547 as being done and the results appended elsewhere.

i am going to make an appointment to spend a day searching those files, but I also want to get all of them so I need to figure out that path

 

 

[GeekySquid]

1 minute ago, GBArmy said:

if we have an A.O. disability the VA automatically puts us in the Registry?

 @GBArmy

wouldn't it be awesome if, for once, the VA did something proactively for Vets? If that ever happened I would pass out in shock.

[GBArmy]

There are a lot of guys that would never trust the VA to do anything proactive that would actually help Veterans. That said, if asked, I always say we should register, because facts are facts. Eventually, the VA has to see there is a connection with "X" disease and A.O. If they don't get those numbers, it just easier for them to deny. Same holds true for the Burn Pit Registry. My heart goes out to those veterans because I see it to be A.O. all over again. These guys are going to suffer from all kinds of maladies and illnesses before the VA starts to recognize the connection. I don't know the numbers, but it has to be a very high rejection rate on Burn Pit disability claims. The more numbers show a connection, the harder it will be for the VA to look the other way. JMO.

[GeekySquid]

6 minutes ago, GBArmy said:

JMO.

it is JMO here too. I agree.

I am one of those that believe the VAB will never do anything proactively to help Veterans. Only when a higher court or Congress demand something happen will it happen.

Sadly it  is up to Veterans to keep pushing these issues and get attention to the problem. Otherwise it is smothered under a rug someplace.

[Buck52]

2 hours ago, GBArmy said:

Buck, are you saying that if we have an A.O. disability the VA automatically puts us in the Registry?

No I never said that? if I did I sure never meant to!

 ALL Veterans that have been in contact with A.O. or a boots on the ground Vietnam or Korea Veterans  or here in the USA Like James Cripps .

  Needs to registered if they have not did so,  but you don't need to be in the A.O.register to file a A.O. Presumption Claim..being in  the A.O. Register helps speed up any Red Type. 

However it will not help a Veteran Win his/her claim/presumption or  direct claims. 

 We do that with Medical Evidence and Help from Qualified  Doctor's

Edited June 8, 2019 by Buck52