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Find the conditions the rating missed

Most veterans are rated for what they claimed, not for everything their records show. VetJustice Pro puts an AI panel of medical specialists on the whole record and returns what it finds, with the evidence for each finding, for you to review.

A panel matched to the case

The panel draws on up to 36 AI medical specialists, from orthopedics and neurology to psychiatry, sleep medicine and cardiology, chosen for the veteran’s conditions (typically 12 to 20 per case). A diagnostic-pattern reviewer and a VA-rating reviewer take part in every case.

Four kinds of finding

  • Underrated: rated conditions the evidence supports rating higher.
  • Unrated: conditions in the records that were never claimed.
  • Underlying: one diagnosis that may explain several conditions VA rated separately. Often the most valuable finding, and the hardest to see.
  • Secondary: conditions caused or worsened by a service-connected one (38 CFR 3.310), with the medical mechanism spelled out.

Why underlying conditions matter

VA rates what is claimed. Over the years a veteran may claim a bad knee, then a hip, then the back, and VA may rate each one separately as joint damage, while the disease behind all three, such as reactive arthritis after an infection in service, is never named or rated.

Finding it can change the claim. The underlying disease can be claimed and rated in its own right, and conditions it causes can be claimed as secondary to it. Because it is the hardest finding to get right, the analysis surfaces one only when at least two specialties independently name it, with the records it rests on, and it can be claimed like any other finding.

Evidence on every finding

Every finding shows the documents and pages it rests on. A finding that can’t be tied to a record is flagged, not hidden.

Findings that fit the veteran

Set the veteran’s biological sex on the case, and conditions that can’t apply are screened out.

You decide

Nothing is filed or chosen for you. You review the findings and pick what to pursue.

See it on a sample case

A narrated tour of the working app on a fictional veteran, no sign-in needed.