Blood & Lymph — VA Disability Ratings

How Blood & Lymph conditions are rated

The hemic and lymphatic schedule covers anemias including sickle cell and aplastic anemia, agranulocytosis, thrombocytopenia, polycythemia vera, myelodysplastic syndromes, the leukemias, the lymphomas, multiple myeloma and splenectomy. Diagnostic codes run 7702 through 7725.

Conditions in this group are generally rated on required treatment and laboratory values rather than on symptoms alone. That is a meaningful difference from most of the rating schedule, and it means your lab results and treatment records carry more weight here than a narrative description of how you feel.

Active disease and active treatment carry a 100% evaluation. What matters for planning is what happens afterwards: a mandatory VA examination is scheduled once treatment ends — six months after cessation for most conditions, two years for non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, and five years from diagnosis for multiple myeloma. Whatever residuals remain are then rated on their own. Any reduction that follows must go through the due-process procedures in 38 CFR §3.105(e), which means advance notice and an opportunity to respond.

Splenectomy is rated 20% as a minimum under DC 7706, and complications such as systemic infections with encapsulated bacteria are rated separately rather than folded into that 20%.