What can I claim secondary to animal envenomation?
1 condition in the Repatriation Medical Authority's Statements of Principles list animal envenomation as a factor. If DVA has accepted your animal envenomation, each of these has a documented pathway to a further claim.
At a glance
- Accepted conditionAnimal envenomation
- Conditions it may open1
- SourceRMA SoPs
- Chart Review$600 + GST
How a secondary claim works
Some Statement of Principles factors are not about service at all — they name another condition. Where DVA has already accepted your animal envenomation, and another condition's SoP lists animal envenomation as a factor, that part of the next claim is already established on your file. How a secondary claim works, in full →
Conditions that list animal envenomation as a factor
Quoted from the instrument. A pathway existing is not the same as a claim succeeding — each factor carries thresholds your record has to satisfy.
Seizure
RH No. 37 of 2022 · BoP No. 38 of 2022
Reasonable Hypothesis — factor (39): “experiencing animal envenomation within the 24 hours before the clinical onset of seizure” [clinical onset]
Balance of Probabilities — factor (39): “experiencing animal envenomation within the 24 hours before the clinical onset of seizure” [clinical onset]
Other accepted conditions that also open seizure
If any of these is also on your file, it reaches some of the same conditions animal envenomation does.
What DVA means by animal envenomation
A claim is tested against the definition first. If the diagnosis on your file does not meet this wording, the factors below never get reached — so it is worth checking that what your doctor wrote matches what the instrument requires.
Animal envenomation, for the purposes of the Statement of Principles, for the purposes of this Statement of Principles, animal envenomation means experiencing the toxic or hypersensitivity effects of contact with animal venom. (3) While animal envenomation attracts ICD-10-AM code T63, X20-X25, X26, X27 or X29, excluding specified and unspecified plants in X26 and X29, in applying this Statement of Principles the meaning of animal envenomation is that given in subsection (2). (4) For subsection (3), a reference to an ICD-10-AM code is a reference to the code assigned to a particular kind of injury or disease in The International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems, Tenth Revision, Australian Modification (ICD-10-AM), Ninth Edition, effective date of 1 July 2015, copyrighted by the Independent Hospital Pricing Authority, ISBN 978-1-76007-020-5.
Aggravation-only factors. In this instrument, subsections 9(4) apply only to material contribution to, or aggravation of, animal envenomation where it was already present before or during service. If service caused animal envenomation outright, those factors are not available to you.
RH No. 81 of 2016 · BoP No. 82 of 2016 · 4 factors
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