Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2023C00151:reg:45:p3
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2023C00151
Segment Type: reg
Provision Reference: reg 45 (pt 3/4)
Character Range: 453431–456537

Compare ratings from two tables for each condition.

        Compare the ratings for ischaemic heart disease (7 versus 10 from Table 1.6) and for chronic bronchitis (14 versus 5 from Table 1.10). Taking the higher rating in each case, the assessment will be: ischaemic heart disease 10 points, chronic bronchitis 14 points.
STEP 5  Do not combine individual ratings until the end.

        If this veteran had no other accepted conditions, the final combined impairment rating would be 25 points (10 & 14 = 23, rounded to 25) instead of 20 points without apportionment.

The calculations in the above example can be conveniently set out in a worksheet format, as illustrated below.

Rating to be apportioned: 20

                         A                      B                  C                 D
Accepted Conditions      Relative Contribution  Functional Rating  Other Impairment  Rating for Condition
Ischaemic Heart Disease  1                      7                  10                10
Chronic Bronchitis       2                      14                  5                14

For purposes of the above worksheet
"Accepted Conditions"     means the accepted conditions that con-tribute to a single impairment rating to be apportioned.
"Relative Contribution"   means the ratio of the relative contributions which the conditions make to the total impairment (in the above example, the ratio is 1:2, written as "1" in the top row of column A, and "2" in the bottom row of column A).
"Functional Rating"       means the ratings for the conditions obtained after apportionment.
"Other Impairment"        means the applicable rating for the conditions obtained from an Other Impairment table.
"Rating for Condition"    means the higher of the ratings in columns B and C of the same row. This is the final impairment rating for the condition named in that row.

For convenience, Tables 20.1 and 20.2 give the apportionment for impairment ratings that are multiples of 5. Table 20.3 to 20.13 give the apportionment for all relevant integral values of impairment ratings for certain given ratios.

Table 20.1 can be applied to find the two relevant values when any impairment rating has to be apportioned between two conditions in any of the given ratios.

The top row contains the ratios into which the impairment rating needs to be apportioned. The left hand column contains the impairment ratings to be apportioned.

From Table 20.1 it will be seen that:
    if a rating of 55 points is to be divided in the ratio of 3:1, one condition gets 47 points and the other gets 16; and
    if a rating of 35 points is to be divided in the ratio of  3:2, one condition gets 23 points and the other gets 16.

Table 20.1
APPORTIONMENT
Ratios
                                                                                                                                  1:1      2:1      3:1      4:1      5:1      3:2
Impairment Ratings   5                                                                                                            2 & 3    4 & 2    3 & 1    4 & 1    5 & 1    3 & 2