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!! Policy letter 21-01 RFE changes !! (routine future examinations)
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We just had a meeting over this today, and among other things veteran anxiety was brought up several times, as was how to define 'sustained improvement', usually in the context of cancers and other malignancies. That is still being addressed, but the short of this is that there is a National push for creating fewer RFE's, due mainly to statistical analysis that shows they are often unnecessary. I get one, I look at it, I document or obtain all the current medical from the last action on a condition, then send it to an RVSR that then looks it over to determine if an exam is truly warranted, etc etc. The dates for these things are set like 90% by computer based on previous regulations and estimations of medical conditions that are gotten from I have no idea where. No, really, im not kidding. I don't know what went into programming the dates for all the various conditions into the system for assigning RFE dates.
It takes up a lot of time for me (us, VSRs) and Rvsrs to evaluate these only to have them not even be needed, meanwhile you have gotten a letter about it and are stewing and worrying about it. Well, this says that we (VA) are changing the policy effective date of this letter (7 OCT) forward. RFEs scheduled prior to are being weeded out and evaluated like normal.
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We just had a meeting over this today, and among other things veteran anxiety was brought up several times, as was how to define 'sustained improvement', usually in the context of cancers and other ma
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