Opinion

Jimison v. West

  • 13 Vet. App. 75
  • 1999 U.S. Vet. App. LEXIS 1063
  • 1999 WL 788635
Court
United States Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims
Filed
Oct 1, 1999
Status
Published
Author
Steinberg
On the bench
Greene, Holdaway, Steinberg
Cited by
1 cases

The opinion

STEINBERG, Judge,

concurring:

I join in the Court’s opinion and write separately only to clarify the scope of the following statement in the opinion: “Of course, a VA adjudicative decision is not VA medical treatment.” Ante at 78. By making that statement, the Court is not holding that a medical decision to discontinue VA treatment could not form the basis for a well-grounded claim under the pre-October 1997 version of 38 U.S.C. § 1151 applicable to this case. That is a matter not before us today because here there is no evidence that there was a medical decision to terminate therapy— only an administrative decision the results of which are not covered by section 1151.

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