What can I claim secondary to irritable bowel syndrome?
1 condition in the Repatriation Medical Authority's Statements of Principles list irritable bowel syndrome as a factor. If DVA has accepted your irritable bowel syndrome, each of these has a documented pathway to a further claim.
At a glance
- Accepted conditionIrritable bowel syndrome
- 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 irritable bowel syndrome, and another condition's SoP lists irritable bowel syndrome 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 irritable bowel syndrome 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.
Haemorrhoids
RH No. 3 of 2017 · BoP No. 4 of 2017
Reasonable Hypothesis — factor (7): “having irritable bowel syndrome for at least the three months before the clinical onset of haemorrhoids” [clinical onset] — factor (15): “having irritable bowel syndrome for at least the four weeks before the clinical worsening of haemorrhoids” [worsening]
This factor appears in the Reasonable Hypothesis instrument only, which applies to operational service.
What else opens further claims
- Conditions secondary to diabetes mellitus
- Conditions secondary to hypertension
- Conditions secondary to moderate to severe traumatic brain injury
- Conditions secondary to alcohol use disorder
- Conditions secondary to cirrhosis of the liver
- Conditions secondary to hepatitis c
- Conditions secondary to depressive disorder
- Conditions secondary to sarcoidosis
- Check every condition you have accepted →
Frequently asked questions
Does this mean I will be accepted for these conditions?
No. It means the legislation contains a pathway. The factor still has to be met on your evidence, and the new condition still has to be diagnosed by a qualified practitioner.
Do I need a new diagnosis for each one?
Yes. DVA cannot accept liability for a condition that has not been diagnosed. If something here matches symptoms you have been living with, that is the conversation to have with a doctor.
Is this the same as an aggravation claim?
No. Aggravation is where service worsened a condition you already had. A sequela is a separate condition arising from one already accepted, claimed in its own right with its own SoP.
Where does this information come from?
The Repatriation Medical Authority Statements of Principles, as held in our SoP Library. We index the factor text of all 357 instruments. SoPs are amended regularly — confirm the current instrument before relying on it.
What should I do next?
Have your record read against these pathways. A chart review establishes which are actually provable, with the page reference behind each one.
What DVA means by irritable bowel syndrome
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.
Irritable bowel syndrome, for the purposes of the Statement of Principles, for the purposes of this Statement of Principles, irritable bowel syndrome means recurrent abdominal pain occurring on average at least one day per week for at least three months, where the pain is associated with two or more of the following: (a) defaecation; (b) a change in the frequency of stool; or (c) a change in the form (appearance) of stool; with the symptom onset at least six months prior to the diagnosis. (3) While irritable bowel syndrome attracts ICD-10-AM code K58, in applying this Statement of Principles the meaning of irritable bowel syndrome 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), Tenth Edition, effective date of 1 July 2017, copyrighted by the Independent Hospital Pricing Authority, ISBN 978-1-76007-296-4.
Aggravation-only factors. In this instrument, subsections 9(9) to 9(15) apply only to material contribution to, or aggravation of, irritable bowel syndrome where it was already present before or during service. If service caused irritable bowel syndrome outright, those factors are not available to you.
RH No. 65 of 2019 · BoP No. 66 of 2019 · 6 factors
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