# Jimison v. West

> United States Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims · October 1, 1999 · 13 Vet. App. 75

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/8167631

## Case

- **Full name:** Frank JIMISON v. Togo D. WEST, Jr., Secretary of Veterans Affairs
- **Court:** United States Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims
- **Decided:** October 1, 1999
- **Citations:** 13 Vet. App. 75; 1999 U.S. Vet. App. LEXIS 1063; 1999 WL 788635
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Concurrence by Steinberg
- **Judges:** Greene, Holdaway, Steinberg
- **Cited by:** 1 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

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## Opinion text

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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