How the VA Rates Digestive Disorders: 2024 Updates and Guidelines
In the VA’s 2023 annual report, it showed that 1.5 million veterans received a VA rating for digestive disorders. Some reasons why a veteran may develop a digestive issue are stress and anxiety from military service, changes in gut microbiome due to deployments, or post-infectious IBS following gastroenteritis during service. The VA rates digestive disorders…