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B-229909 1 (1988-12-16)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadnim0001 and id is 1 raw text is: uThe Comptroller General of the United States Wahlngta., D.C. 20448 Decision Matterof: Staff Sergeant Robert Stancavage, USAR File: B-229909 Date: December 16, 1988 DIGEST An Army reservist was injured in the line of duty while performing his annual 2 weeks of active duty for training. After he was released from active duty and returned to his home, he sought continued treatment for his injury from physicians engaged in the private practice of medicine. His claim for reimbursement of the medical expenses incurred for that continued treatment is denied since the private medical treatment sought had not been properly authorized, the treatment was not of an emergency nature, and there were federal treatment facilities available near his home. DECISION Staff Sergeant Robert Stancavage, U.S. Army Reserve, requests reconsideration of our Claims Group's disallowance of his claim for reimbursement of medical expenses incurred for the treatment of an injury he suffered while performing an annual 2-week period of active duty for training. We sustain the denial of his claim. BACKGROUND Sergeant Stancavage injured his leg on August 30, 1983, while performing 2 weeks of annual active duty for training with his Reserve unit at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. The Army determined that the injury had occurred in the line of duty. He received medical treatment for this injury at an Army hospital at Fort Bragg until the 2-week period of active duty ended on September 3, 1983. He then returned to his home in Scranton, Pennsylvania. He later incurred medical charges in a total amount of $3,969.85 when he sought private medical treatment in Scranton for continuing treatment of the leg injury in the following months.

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