Ree Medical

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Contacts

• Main line: (888) 495-8044
• Official site: https://reemedical.com
• Alternate line (site footer): (866) 420-3093
• General inquiries: [email protected]

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What Is REE Medical?

REE Medical is a company based in Encinitas, California that connects U.S. military veterans with independent, licensed medical professionals who perform paid evaluations — including Disability Benefits Questionnaires (DBQs) — to support VA disability claims, both new (initial) claims and requests to increase an existing rating.

The company's own site states it uses a "flat, transparent rate" that is "never contingent on claim outcomes," and explicitly disclaims being a Veterans Service Organization (VSO) or law firm: "REE Medical, LLC ... does not provide legal or medical advice or assist clients with preparing or filing claims for benefits with the VA." Its listed contact numbers are (888) 495-8044 and (866) 420-3093, and its official domain is reemedical.com.

Corporate registry aggregators (mirroring California Secretary of State data) show a related entity, REE Medical, Inc. (CA entity #C3998655), incorporated February 27, 2017 at an Encinitas address — consistent with the company's own "Since 2017" founding claim and the reemedical.com domain's May 2017 registration date. BBB's own profile separately lists a later "Business Incorporated" date of May 20, 2022 for REE Medical LLC -- a data point consistent with (but not proof of) today's LLC being a 2022 reorganization distinct from the earlier 2017 "Inc." entity; this session still could not independently load the live Secretary of State record to fully resolve the LLC-vs-Inc. naming discrepancy (see report). BBB's profile names an all-compliance leadership team -- Scarlet Wheeler (Senior VP of Compliance and Quality), Dakota Hilliard (Compliance and Quality Manager), and Raquel Crowe (Compliance and Quality Analyst) -- with no CEO or owner named.

Is Ree Medical Legitimate?

Charging veterans a fee to help prepare or present a VA disability claim is restricted under federal law (38 U.S.C. Chapter 59; 38 CFR §§ 14.626–14.637) to VA-accredited attorneys, claims agents, and VSO representatives. A wave of "claim shark" companies has drawn federal and state scrutiny for charging large fees anyway: a federal court ruled Veterans Guardian VA Claim Consulting violated this law and faces a class action alleging over $250 million collected from veterans; Trajector Medical and VA Claims Insider have separately faced lawsuits and a Texas Attorney General suit. California passed a law in 2026 targeting unaccredited fee-charging VA claims-help firms generally.

REE Medical positions itself outside that category by framing its service as independent medical-evidence coordination rather than claim preparation or filing — a distinction its own site makes explicitly, including in a blog post responding to a VA Office of Inspector General scam bulletin. This research did not find any lawsuit, state Attorney General action, or VA enforcement letter specifically naming REE Medical, unlike the named peers above — that is a checked-and-not-found result as of this research date, not a finding that its business model has been reviewed and cleared by a regulator or court.

Separately, REE Medical carries a substantial complaint volume for its size: BBB lists 99 complaints in the trailing 3 years (35 closed in the trailing 12 months), with only 20 of the 99 marked "Resolved" despite an A+ BBB rating and accreditation since April 4, 2018. BBB's complaint categories are dominated by "Product Issues" (40) — described as DBQs or evaluations veterans found inaccurate or that didn't produce the promised result — and "Service/Repair Issues" (35), largely delayed or absent follow-up after payment. Independent reviews on ComplaintsBoard and BBB describe a similar pattern: payment collected upfront, then extended periods (multiple weeks) without a response, and disputed refund requests when a veteran asks to stop or is dissatisfied with the medical evaluation received. A number of more recent BBB complaints (read in full, dated March-July 2026) go further, alleging the delivered DBQ itself contained factual errors -- an incorrect deployment date, an incomplete clinical-observations section -- that were not corrected on request, and describing a subsequent claim denial the complainant attributes to the VA giving limited weight to REE Medical's evidence. One complaint also alleges REE Medical continued charging scheduled installment payments after its own staff said the file could not move forward pending missing medical records.

Before You Pay REE Medical

Veterans are entitled to free help preparing and filing VA disability claims from an accredited Veterans Service Organization (VFW, DAV, American Legion, and others) or a VA-accredited claims agent/attorney, who by law may only charge a fee — and only for work after a claim has already been decided once, not for the initial filing. If REE Medical's fee is for a service a VSO would otherwise provide free, that is worth weighing before paying.

Given the BBB complaint pattern of payment collected upfront followed by unresponsiveness, get any promised timeline, deliverable, and refund policy in writing before paying, and confirm a specific point of contact rather than relying on a general phone line. If a dispute arises, BBB's own complaint process is one avenue; if a company appears to be effectively preparing or presenting a claim (rather than only gathering medical evidence) without VA accreditation, that can be reported to the VA Office of General Counsel's Accreditation, Discipline & Fees Program.

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