VA's Process for Determining Traumatic Brain Injury in Veterans Seeking Disability Compensation Examined in New Report

The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs should expand the requirement in its disability compensation process regarding who can diagnose traumatic brain injury (TBI) to include any health care professional with pertinent and ongoing brain injury training and experience, says a new congressionally mandated report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. Currently, one of four specialties must diagnose TBI— a neurologist, neurosurgeon, physiatrist, or psychiatrist— but the report says that it is the training and experience, not necessarily the medical specialty that renders a health care provider capable of an accurate diagnosis. Read More
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