What can I claim secondary to hepatitis d?
4 conditions in the Repatriation Medical Authority's Statements of Principles list hepatitis d as a factor. If DVA has accepted your hepatitis d, each of these has a documented pathway to a further claim.
At a glance
- Accepted conditionHepatitis D
- Conditions it may open4
- SourceRMA SoPs
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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 hepatitis d, and another condition's SoP lists hepatitis d 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 hepatitis d 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.
Cirrhosis of the liver
RH No. 1 of 2017 · BoP No. 2 of 2017
Reasonable Hypothesis — factor (6): “having chronic infection with the hepatitis D virus before the clinical onset of cirrhosis of the liver” [clinical onset] — factor (33): “having chronic infection with the hepatitis D virus before the clinical worsening of cirrhosis of the liver” [worsening]
Balance of Probabilities — factor (6): “having chronic infection with the hepatitis D virus before the clinical onset of cirrhosis of the liver” [clinical onset] — factor (31): “having chronic infection with the hepatitis D virus before the clinical worsening of cirrhosis of the liver” [worsening]
Note: chronic infection with the hepatitis D virus is defined in the Schedule 1 - Dictionary.
Hepatitis B
RH No. 13 of 2017 · BoP No. 14 of 2017
Reasonable Hypothesis — factor (4): “being infected with the hepatitis A, hepatitis C, hepatitis D or hepatitis E virus before the clinical worsening of hepatitis B” [worsening]
Balance of Probabilities — factor (4): “being infected with the hepatitis A, hepatitis C, hepatitis D or hepatitis E virus before the clinical worsening of hepatitis B” [worsening]
Hepatitis C
RH No. 13 of 2018 · BoP No. 14 of 2018
Reasonable Hypothesis — factor (2): “being infected with the hepatitis A, hepatitis B, hepatitis D or hepatitis E virus before the clinical worsening of hepatitis C” [worsening]
Balance of Probabilities — factor (2): “being infected with the hepatitis A, hepatitis B, hepatitis D or hepatitis E virus before the clinical worsening of hepatitis C” [worsening]
Malignant neoplasm of the liver
RH No. 31 of 2020 · BoP No. 32 of 2020
Reasonable Hypothesis — factor (4): “having chronic infection with hepatitis D virus before the clinical onset of malignant neoplasm of the liver” [clinical onset]
Balance of Probabilities — factor (4): “having chronic infection with hepatitis D virus before the clinical onset of malignant neoplasm of the liver” [clinical onset]
Note: chronic infection with hepatitis D virus is defined in the Schedule 1 - Dictionary.
Other accepted conditions that also open cirrhosis of the liver
If any of these is also on your file, it reaches some of the same conditions hepatitis d does.
What DVA means by hepatitis d
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.
Hepatitis D, for the purposes of the Statement of Principles, for the purposes of this Statement of Principles, hepatitis D means infection with the hepatitis D virus, as a co-infection or superinfection with the hepatitis B virus, resulting in: (a) an acute, symptomatic, clinical illness characterised by inflammation of the liver and commonly accompanied by fever, tiredness, loss of appetite, nausea, vomiting, abdominal discomfort and jaundice; or (b) a chronic infection which may involve both inflammation of the liver and the development of fibrosis in the longer term. Both acute and chronic infection must be confirmed by laboratory testing for hepatitis D serological or nucleic acid markers, or both. (3) While hepatitis D attracts ICD-10-AM code B16.0, B16.1, B17.0 or B18.0, in applying this Statement of Principles the meaning of hepatitis D 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 A
Aggravation-only factors. In this instrument, subsections 9(2) apply only to material contribution to, or aggravation of, hepatitis d where it was already present before or during service. If service caused hepatitis d outright, those factors are not available to you.
RH No. 11 of 2017
Reviewed by Dr Thomas Perkins
Founding doctor, Veterans Health Centre · former RAAF aviation medical officer · 13 years working exclusively with ADF members and veterans. Full profile →
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