Claim Before Appeals Mgmt. Center Rating Board

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Has anyone had a decision rendered on a claim by the rating board at the Appeals Management Center? If so, can you give me a rough idea as to how long the rating board took to make a decision?

This was a remand issued by the Board in December of 2005.

Thanks!

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Hi Larry

Manila has it's own OPC clinic, that is where we get our treatments and medications and C&P's and local opinions, that was one of the problems on one of my claims, BVA did not agree with the opinion of one of the VA doctors, first she was not a Gastro doctor and second she gave an opinion without looking at my claim file. because they found evidence in my claim file from 1978, where i had an exam that showed GERD disease and a Hiatal Hernia in service. which is a predictor for Barretts Esophagus. Barrets Esophagus is one of my claim that was remanded. they want a opinion from a board ceertify Gastro doctor, the doctor that gave the opinion was a pulmonary specialist.

So9 I guess i will have to wait on the AMC to make a decision.