…n would alleviate their symptoms. The use of CPT code 99443 in this situation prevents a similar in-person service as the evaluation of the patient's symptoms and determination to adjust medication could be conducted without patient and the practitioner being in the same location…

…during a higher-level review or appeal to the Board of Veterans' Appeals. Those events reopen the record and any evidence previously submitted to the agency of original jurisdiction or associated with the claims file while the record was closed will become part of the evidentiary…