VA Claims Stuff

M21, VA's Claim Adjudication Bible Manual requires the Examiner 's report address all three of the following medical issues in order to be considered adequate for rating a claim for Secondary Service Connection based on aggravation:

--the current level of severity of the NSC disease or injury

--an opinion as to whether an SC disability proximately caused the NSC disability to increase in severity, and

--an adequate analysis with medical considerations supporting the opinion

Note: The Internal VA Use Only version of the Medical Opinion Disability Benefits Questionnaire (DBQ) addresses all three.