Tag Archives: VA claims

RENAL CELL CARCINOMA -2NDARY TO HCV

Posted on January 6, 2014 by asknod

Member 63Sierra from Hadit.com sends me this missive and asked that I post it for all of you. He finally attained SC for his kidney cancer secondary to HCV. While this is nothing to cheer about (the cancer) it is … Continue reading →

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CAN YOU SPELL “DRAFT”?

Posted on January 4, 2014 by asknod

They say you reap what you sew. We experienced this in Vietnam when we discovered we had no more MK 82s lying around left over from WW II.  We ended up buying them back from the German Air Force for … Continue reading →

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LIES, DAMNED LIES AND VA STATISTICS

Posted on January 4, 2014 by asknod

Benjamin Disraeli, the eminent British Prime minister said this in the late nineteenth century long before the VA was beginning to hit its stride at obfuscation and disingenuous, convoluted statistics showing up was left and down was, well, whatever they … Continue reading →

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DVA–WE HAVE TO PASS IT TO SEE WHAT’S IN IT

Posted on January 3, 2014 by asknod

In an old government trick so antique they don’t even have a name for it in DC anymore, the VA tried to trot out this innocuous document in Rodney King format (Can’t we all just get along?) but in the … Continue reading →

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PROJECT SANCTUARY

Posted on December 29, 2013 by asknod

Here’s a real hands-on charity in Colorado. I read over their 2012 IRS 990  Sanctuary 990 2012 and liked what I see.  Project Sanctuary conducted ten retreats in 2011, their latest year tabulated above. That took 103 military families-Dads, Moms, and in … Continue reading →

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VA TO EXPAND TBI INJURIES

Posted on December 23, 2013 by asknod

Well, the VA finally has decided to think like an AO presumptive claim. Certain diseases travel in a herd. TBI is a compendium of many brain damaged functions in no particular order. Additionally, no one suffers from exactly the same … Continue reading →

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BVA–EENY-MEENY-MINY-MO. WAS IT CLAP OR WAS IT SNOW?

Posted on December 22, 2013 by asknod

FROM THE REDSKIN REGIONAL OFFICE  IN INDIANVILLE, INDIANA   In one of those convoluted rulings, the BVA Judge here is faced with some unalterable facts.  Johnny Vet has four or five risk factors. VD, which is proof of licentious sexual … Continue reading →

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BVA–HCV DIAGNOSED IN 1970

Posted on December 22, 2013 by asknod

From the Hollywood Regional Office in greater Los Angeles   Here’s one of those HCV claims that looks for all the world like it has legs. Vet serves in Vietnam as a medic, or, in the alternative as a hospital orderly. … Continue reading →

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What do those first three pints of blood cost?

Posted on December 19, 2013 by Laura

An unexpected sticky wicket has crossed my monitor–the Medicare blood deductible! Unless a private plan picks up the cost, Medicare patients must pay for those first three pints of blood by law (A., B.,) Clearly, this is a health care service … Continue reading →

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What 21.8 million death certificates do–and don’t–tell us about viral hepatitis

Posted on December 17, 2013 by Laura

ASKNOD members are already well aware that HCV now kills more people than HIV.  This study of data from U.S. recorded deaths held some surprises for me.   Standardized death certificates have two parts and utilize the International Classification of Diseases (ICD) … Continue reading →

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