VA Plans to Outsource All Compensation and Pension Exams

SSG Robert Mark Odom they outsourced a very important c&p exam for me to a very incompetent doctor who wrote the narrative correct but checked all the wrong boxes on the form leaving me in limbo still.

Same as they did for Worker's Comp. at state level. Send you to "company" Dr., who says you are fine. Bean counters.

Out of 5 C&P exams I’ve had, 4 had been outsourced to QTC or VES. Only 1 was at the VA and I can say that the VA examiner was not the nicest. The contractors have a totally different attitude and are focused on the C&P and it eliminates any VA bias a VA employee might bring to the exam. Remember that the contract examiner is not there to medically treat you. They are there only to follow the protocol the VA has given them for example to measure flexion and extension of your knee etc. and document the claimed disability is more likely then not from your military injury. Also remember, your exam starts when you walk into the facility. They will see you sitting and visually see your knees at 90 degrees and when they call you to come back for the exam and you stand they see your knees went to 0 degrees. So eventually when in the exam they ask you to bend your knees and you grunt and can't hardly bend them, they will annotate that they saw you do 90 to 0 but during the exam you only did 15 to 5. The rater then reads the doctors notes and decides your rating.