Every fee here is fixed, quoted before the work starts, and invoiced once. We never take a percentage of your compensation and we never bill you after a determination. This page explains why that model was chosen deliberately, and what it buys you.
DVA maintains a fee schedule for medicolegal work it requests itself. When DVA asks for an assessment, the provider bills DVA and the veteran should be out of pocket nothing. What DVA does not fund is work requested by anyone else — by you, by your advocate, or by your solicitor. Those reports are privately billed, and that is the work we do.
A medicolegal report is a clinical opinion. If the author is paid more when the impairment rating is higher, the opinion has a financial stake in its own conclusion. A fixed fee removes that: we are paid the same whether your combined impairment comes to 8 points or 80, and whether the claim is accepted or refused.
It matters to how DVA reads the document too. A delegate weighing a medical opinion is entitled to consider what the author stood to gain from it.
The Repatriation Commission said in October 2025 that paying for advocacy "does not guarantee faster processing times, better claim outcomes, or higher compensation payments". That is true. What money can buy is not a better decision — it is better evidence in front of the decision-maker.
Quoted before the work begins, invoiced once. See all fees.
A free accredited advocate through an ex-service organisation can lodge and argue your claim at no cost, and review by the Veterans' Review Board is free. We are not an alternative to that — we write the medical evidence the argument is made of. Free versus private advocates.
The Claims Library holds de-identified example reports across hundreds of conditions, written exactly the way yours would be.