Conditions - Sidebar

Overview: Learn how to navigate the sidebar in the Conditions tab on Page to view claimed conditions, Flagged Documents, and other conditions.

Claimed Conditions

• The sidebar displays all conditions claimed by the veteran, including both formal and informal claims. Page determines claimed conditions based on whether a condition is:
  • Included on a 526 EZ
  • Included on a Codesheet
  • Included on a Rating Decision
  • An informal claim prior to 2015
• Each condition shows its name and current rating percentage. Hover over a condition to see its claim status, latest rating, and effective date.
• Click on any condition to open a detailed view with Procedural History, Filings, Medical Evidence, and Other Evidence, with references to each relevant piece of evidence.
• Sort conditions by claim status, rating, or alphabetically.
• Page also handles Individual Unemployability (IU), DIC, and SMC cases.

Claim Status

• Claim status is Page's calculation of whether a claim stream is open for appeal, pending adjudication, or closed (outside the appeals window).
• Page has incorporated all of the VA's rules for what is open and pending, for both AMA and Legacy, to determine the status of each claim stream.
• On rare occasions, conditions may be marked as Unknown - this is usually because the VA did not follow their own procedural rules.

Flagged Documents (Note: IMPORTANT)

• Flagged Documents highlights documents that are not included in any claimed condition but are associated with an important file type, such as Buddy Lay statements, C&P exams, Rating Decisions, and various VA forms and filings. This list is also full customizable - you can add and remove file types as you see fit (Note: this setting is at an organization level).
• Click on a Flagged Document to see the file type and decide what to do with it. You can merge it into a claimed condition, add pieces of evidence to other conditions or archive it.

Unknown Conditions

• An Unknown condition is a type of Flagged Document. Usually, these are empty forms but on occasion something critical can be found there. Page includes this as a fallback to make sure nothing slips through the cracks.

Other Conditions

• Other Conditions shows all conditions mentioned in the file that aren't part of claimed conditions or Flagged Documents.
• Conditions found in STRs appear first, followed by conditions found in other medical treatment records like CAPRIs or post-service records.

Managing Conditions

• Click the three-dot menu on any condition to archive it, unflag it (in the case of Flagged condition) , or edit its name. Unflagging a condition moves it to Other Conditions.
• Click "Archived" to view and unarchive archived conditions.
• Collapse the sidebar to reduce clutter, or use the search bar to find conditions by name.
• Use the two-arrows button to merge conditions. See the Merging Conditions article for more details.