What can I claim secondary to renal stone disease?
3 conditions in the Repatriation Medical Authority's Statements of Principles list renal stone disease as a factor. If DVA has accepted your renal stone disease, each of these has a documented pathway to a further claim.
At a glance
- Accepted conditionRenal stone disease
- Conditions it may open3
- 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 renal stone disease, and another condition's SoP lists renal stone disease 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 renal stone disease 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.
Malignant neoplasm of the bladder
RH No. 83 of 2019
Reasonable Hypothesis — factor (14): “having renal stone disease or a bladder stone at least five years before the clinical onset of malignant neoplasm of the bladder” [clinical onset]
This factor appears in the Reasonable Hypothesis instrument only, which applies to operational service.
Malignant neoplasm of the kidney
RH No. 41 of 2021 · BoP No. 42 of 2021
Reasonable Hypothesis — factor (12): “having renal stone disease involving the affected kidney at least five years before the clinical onset of malignant neoplasm of the kidney” [clinical onset]
This factor appears in the Reasonable Hypothesis instrument only, which applies to operational service.
Malignant neoplasm of the renal pelvis and ureter
RH No. 92 of 2019 · BoP No. 93 of 2019
Reasonable Hypothesis — factor (13): “having renal stone disease of the affected urinary tract at least five years before the clinical onset of malignant neoplasm of the renal pelvis or ureter” [clinical onset]
Balance of Probabilities — factor (10): “having renal stone disease of the affected urinary tract at least ten years before the clinical onset of malignant neoplasm of the renal pelvis or ureter” [clinical onset]
Other accepted conditions that also open malignant neoplasm of the bladder
If any of these is also on your file, it reaches some of the same conditions renal stone disease does.
What DVA means by renal stone disease
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.
Renal stone disease, for the purposes of the Statement of Principles, for the purposes of this Statement of Principles, renal stone disease: (a) means the presence of one or more calculi in the kidney (nephrolithiasis) or ureter (ureterolithiasis), which result from crystallisation of mineral salts in the urine; and (b) excludes nephrocalcinosis (renal parenchymal calcification) and primary calculus of the lower urinary tract (urinary bladder or urethra).
Note the exclusion. This instrument expressly excludes nephrocalcinosis (renal parenchymal calcification) and primary calculus of the lower urinary tract (urinary bladder or urethra). A diagnosis of that is not a diagnosis of renal stone disease, and a claim framed the wrong way fails on the definition before any factor is considered.
Aggravation-only factors. In this instrument, subsections 9(29) apply only to material contribution to, or aggravation of, renal stone disease where it was already present before or during service. If service caused renal stone disease outright, those factors are not available to you.
RH No. 69 of 2019 · BoP No. 70 of 2019 · 25 factors
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