Essential guide to DVA billing
Navigating the world of Department of Veterans' Affairs (DVA) billing can seem daunting. This concise guide provides general practitioners (GPs) with essential information on claiming for key DVA services, incentive payments, and compensation claim paperwork, ensuring accurate and efficient processing of your claims.
DVA claiming for clinical services
Incentive payments
There are a number of incentive payments for General Practitioners working with DVA clients. Below is a summary, for more detailed information, visit: Incentive payments for General Practitioners | Department of Veterans' Affairs.
DVA Compensation Claim Paperwork Billing
The following resources provides essential information for healthcare providers on accurately billing DVA for compensation claims related to both mental and general health conditions.
This guide provides you with the information you need when invoicing DVA for compensation claims to ensure you get paid quickly and correctly.
These resources offer quick tips for navigating mental health claims, including information on military compensation, completing necessary forms, and assessing impairment and incapacity.
These resources offer guidance on navigating general (non-mental health) compensation claims, including information on military compensation, completing necessary forms, and assessing impairment and incapacity.
To improve your understanding of how to support veteran patient compensation claims, enrol in our upcoming webinar: Supporting Veterans’ compensation claims and GP billing
VETs HeLP is an initiative funded by the Australian Government through the Department of Veterans’ Affairs.
Catherine is a GP in Geelong, Victoria. She has been involved in a wide variety of Medical Education opportunities, these include GP training, lecturing in Medicine at Deakin University, and providing clinical consultancy for the Deakin Indigenous Health team. Over recent years Catherine has moved into planning and facilitating the professional development of Medical Educators and GP Supervisors as well as learning (like everyone else) to do all of this online. Catherine strives to ensure her education events are engaging and innovative, with a dose of appropriate fun.
Dr Catherine Eltringham
This article equips GPs with practical strategies to recognise and assess suicide risk in Australian veterans. It outlines tools to support your consultation and assessment, and highlights referral pathways such as Open Arms – Veterans and Families Counselling and DVA services to support early intervention and save lives in general practice.
Dr Catherine Eltringham
Almost 90% of veterans report suffering from pain on transitioning out of military service and service-related injuries are often implicated. Open Arms and DVA have developed resources to support them and guide your care. Management includes education, non-medical interventions, allied health support, and selective medical treatments. Addressing mental health is crucial.
Dr Catherine Eltringham
As veterans transition from military service, they often face significant mental health challenges, including post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), depression, anxiety, and adjustment difficulties. Managing these complex conditions requires a holistic, long-term approach, and general practitioners (GPs) are in a unique position to support veterans not only through referrals to mental health specialists but also through evidence-based lifestyle interventions that promote resilience and recovery.