When I received my denile of my claim for secondary issues that were caused and/or the result of my SC issues.

I'll try to do my best in esplaining the problem as I see it.

I finally got and increase of 10% for a Nasal Fracture and Deviated Septum due to trauma, while hospitalized for a unrelated mental condition, another story, another time.
I then applied for secondary issues as a result of the nasal fracture and deviated septum on the primouse that the structural changes that resulted from the fracture and deviated septum is cuasing Non-Allergic and/or Allergic Rhinitis like symptoms, and/or symptoms similiar to those of Chronic Sinisitus.

They denied my claim stating that my SC Nasal Fracture and Deviated Septum is less than likely the cause for the diagnosis of Allergic Rhinitis and their is no supporting literature to prove otherwise.

I've tried to make it clear to them that I am not claiming that the SC issues is the cause of a disease process. I'm trying to show that the symtomology or symptoms, although similiar in nature to the different types of Rhinitis and/or Sinisitis is caused by the abnormal air flow due to the acquired abnormal structural changes as a direct result of the nasal fracture and deviated septom, for which I have found supporting literature to prove out my claim. I also have on at least two occasions been told I have an additional problem with the collaps of the nasal wall upon labered breathing through the nose, which was as likely as not the result of the same trauma and/or procedure used to reduce the fractured nasal bone shortly after the trauma occured.

I need to know or given some direction on how to precent this obvious error in their assumption of what the claim is actully about or the proper reason and basis of the claim

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Yesterday the Senate passed S. 1963, the "Caregiver and Veterans Omnibus Health Services Act of 2009", which would provide comprehensive new support to caregivers of severely disabled veterans and improve health care services for women veterans and all veterans who rely on the VA. I wanted you to know that this important victory would not have been possible without the grassroots efforts of thousands of DAV members and supporters throughout the country. With your help, DAV was able to play an important role in getting S. 1963 through the Senate and we will continue working with Congress until this legislation is enacted into law. For your perusal, I have included DAV's press release below.

Thanks for all you have done. ------------------ FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
November 20, 2009

Senate Passes Major Veterans Legislation to Aid Caregivers, Women Veterans
WASHINGTON, Nov. 20 - The Disabled American Veterans (DAV) applauds the U.S. Senate for unanimously approving S. 1963, "The Caregiver and Veterans Omnibus Health Services Act of 2009." As passed, S. 1963 creates a comprehensive new program to support family caregivers of severely disabled veterans, and strengthens VA health care programs for women veterans, homeless veterans, veterans with mental health needs, and veterans suffering from traumatic brain injury. "The Senate's overwhelming statement of support for this bill sends an unmistakable message that our government has an obligation to provide comprehensive support to family caregivers of severely wounded and disabled veterans," DAV National Commander Roberto Barrera said. "S. 1963 also contains landmark provisions that will help ensure that women veterans, who have played an increasingly essential role in our military, receive quality, timely and gender-appropriate health care services from the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), equal in every respect to that afforded male veterans," Barrera said. S. 1963 combines the content of two measures previously approved by the Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee, S. 252 and S. 801, into a single VA health care omnibus bill. Since the House of Representatives has already passed similar, but separate veterans health bills, the two bodies must now reach an agreement on identical legislation before it can be sent to the President for his approval. "DAV looks forward to working together with the Senate and House Veterans' Affairs Committees and other interested veterans service organizations to develop the strongest veterans health care legislation we can to aid all veterans," Commander Barrera said. "In particular, we believe that disabled veterans from all eras could benefit from family caregiver support services and will work to see that the final legislation moves in that direction," he said. Commander Barrera expressed DAV's gratitude to several Senators who played leading roles in developing and moving the legislation successfully through the Senate. "Senator Daniel Akaka, Chairman of the Senate's Committee on Veterans' Affairs, has been a tireless champion for veterans health care programs throughout his tenure, and his skillful work on S. 1963 was central to the Senate's approval," Barrera said. "A veteran himself, Chairman Akaka has proven to be a reliable and effective leader, always ready to stand up for our nation's veterans." "Senator Richard Burr (N.C.), the Ranking Member of the Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee, worked in a truly bipartisan manner with the Chairman to help craft this legislation and then provide crucial leadership to help it overcome barriers that may otherwise have derailed it," Barrera said. "DAV applauds Senator Burr for putting the interests of veterans first." "DAV also applauds the relentless efforts of Senator Patty Murray to enact legislation that will improve the lives of all veterans, especially women veterans. Senator Murray's landmark women veterans health care legislation was included within S. 1963, and her passionate advocacy for women veterans has been crucial throughout this process," Barrera said. The 1.2 million-member Disabled American Veterans, a non-profit organization founded in 1920 and chartered by the U.S. Congress in 1932, represents this nation's disabled veterans. It is dedicated to a single purpose: building better lives for our nation's disabled veterans and their families. More information is available at www.dav.org

http://www.socialsecurity.gov/compassionateallowances/



Social Security has an obligation to provide benefits quickly to applicants whose medical conditions are so serious that their conditions obviously meet disability standards.

Compassionate allowances are a way of quickly identifying diseases and other medical conditions that invariably qualify under the Listing of Impairments based on minimal objective medical information. Compassionate allowances allow Social Security to quickly target the most obviously disabled individuals for allowances based on objective medical information that we can obtain quickly.

Commissioner Astrue has held four Compassionate Allowance public outreach hearings. The hearings were on rare diseases, cancers, traumatic brain injury (TBI) and stroke, and early-onset Alzheimer's disease and related dementias. The Commissioner will hold the fifth public outreach hearing on schizophrenia in November 2009. The hearing will take place in San Francisco, California.

The initial list of Compassionate Allowance conditions was developed as a result of information received at public outreach hearings, public comment on an Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, comments received from the Social Security and Disability Determination Service communities, and the counsel of medical and scientific experts. Also, we considered which conditions are most likely to meet our current definition of disability.

A modest 50 conditions were selected for the initiative's rollout. The list which follows will expand over time.

Additional information about how compassionate allowances are processed

https://secure.ssa.gov/apps10/poms.nsf/lnx/...33;opendocument

Initial List of Compassionate Allowance Conditions

List of Conditions




Acute Leukemia


Adrenal Cancer - with distant metastases or inoperable, unresectable or recurrent


Alexander Disease (ALX) - Neonatal and Infantile


Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS)


Anaplastic Adrenal Cancer - with distant metastases or inoperable, unresectable or recurrent


Astrocytoma - Grade III and IV


Bladder Cancer - with distant metastases or inoperable or unresectable


Bone Cancer - with distant metastases or inoperable or unresectable


Breast Cancer - with distant metastases or inoperable or unresectable


Canavan Disease (CD)


Cerebro Oculo Facio Skeletal (COFS) Syndrome


Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia (CML) - Blast Phase


Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD) - Adult


Ependymoblastoma (Child Brain Tumor)


Esophageal Cancer


Farber's Disease (FD) - Infantile


Friedreichs Ataxia (FRDA)


Frontotemporal Dementia (FTD), Picks Disease -Type A - Adult


Gallbladder Cancer


Gaucher Disease (GD) - Type 2


Glioblastoma Multiforme (Brain Tumor)


Head and Neck Cancers - with distant metastasis or inoperable or uresectable


Infantile Neuroaxonal Dystrophy (INAD)


Inflammatory Breast Cancer (IBC)


Kidney Cancer - inoperable or unresectable


Krabbe Disease (KD) - Infantile


Large Intestine Cancer - with distant metastasis or inoperable, unresectable or recurrent


Lesch-Nyhan Syndrome (LNS)


Liver Cancer


Mantle Cell Lymphoma (MCL)


Metachromatic Leukodystrophy (MLD) - Late Infantile


Niemann-Pick Disease (NPD) - Type A


Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer - with metastases to or beyond the hilar nodes or inoperable, unresectable or recurrent


Ornithine Transcarbamylase (OTC) Deficiency


Osteogenesis Imperfecta (OI) - Type II


Ovarian Cancer - with distant metastases or inoperable or unresectable


Pancreatic Cancer


Peritoneal Mesothelioma


Pleural Mesothelioma


Pompe Disease - Infantile


Rett (RTT) Syndrome


Salivary Tumors


Sandhoff Disease


Small Cell Cancer (of the Large Intestine, Ovary, Prostate, or Uterus)


Small Cell Lung Cancer


Small Intestine Cancer - with distant metastases or inoperable, unresectable or recurrent


Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA) - Types 0 And 1


Stomach Cancer - with distant metastases or inoperable, unresectable or recurrent


Thyroid Cancer


Ureter Cancer - with distant metastases or inoperable, unresectable or recurrent





"Keep on, Keepin' on"
Dan Cedusky, Champaign IL "Colonel Dan"
See my web site at:
http://www.angelfire.com/il2/VeteranIssues/

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[b]New Denver VAMC, Doesn't have PTSD Program? That can't be right


http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/21301540/detail.html[/b]



DENVER -- When officials broke ground on the new $800 million VA Medical Center, many veterans assumed that a residential treatment center for those suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder would be built in the new hospital.

But several were surprised to learn this month that the hefty price tag does not include the PTSD treatment center.

"This is beyond comprehension," said Rep. Mike Coffman, who is himself a veteran of the gulf war and of the war in Iraq.

VA officials told 7NEWS that "major construction funds" can’t be spent on the residential treatment facility, but that the facility will be built.

"The PTSD residential program is a crown jewel of VA in eastern Colorado," said Lynette Roff, director of the VA’s eastern Colorado health care system. "We are very committed to making sure it is included in our new facility and that it continues to grow."

Roff said the VA has applied for separate funds for a stand alone facility which will be constructed just to the north of the new hospital.

She said the $9.5 million PTSD Center will open about the same time as the new hospital.

"We have lots of time between now and 2013 or 2014 when we activate the hospital to make that residential treatment facility become a reality," Roff said.

That's good news for Chuck Douglas and Paul A. Hernandez, both Vietnam veterans who went through the program at the existing VA hospital.

“It has been immensely helpful to me,” Douglas said. “I can’t give enough credit to the staff.”

“I didn’t realize I had issues,” Hernandez said. “People with PTSD isolate themselves. They don’t talk to other people. You waste your life away basically.”

"We don’t want the new center for us," the two vets said. "We want it for the servicemen and women who are coming home from Iraq and Afghanistan."

Coffman said he’s going to see if the funding law needs to be changed.

"For them to have failed to incorporate this into their original plans makes me question a lot about what else is in the plan or isn’t in the plan," the congressman said.



Also see:

www.chieftain.com/articles/2009/10/25/.../doc4ae3885a0c061712657647.txt



1. DENVER -- When officials broke ground on the new $800 million VA Medical Center, ... month that the hefty price tag does not include the PTSD treatment center. ... “The PTSD residential program is a crown jewel of VA in eastern Colorado,” said ... which will be constructed just to the north of the new hospital. ...
woundedtimes.blogspot.com/.../how-many-more-veterans-will-die-between.html





[size="3"]"Keep on, Keepin' on"
Dan Cedusky, Champaign IL "Colonel Dan"
See my web site at:
http://www.angelfire.com/il2/VeteranIssues/

My last C&P exam was 10 September 2009. Then I had a letter from Qu Te Ce asking me to go back for an Upper GI test. The test was 09 October 2009. I think that I shouldn't need anymore C&P exams, or anyother test ordered.

If I ask on the status with an IRIS, will it delay the claim? "I don't want to loose my place in line"