VA Disability Rating for Tuberculosis, pulmonary, chronic, inactive (DC 6731)

This code covers chronic pulmonary tuberculosis that has become inactive, for veterans whose pulmonary tuberculosis was first evaluated after August 19, 1968. It has no percentage ladder of its own. The VA rates the lasting lung damage (residuals) depending on the findings: as interstitial lung disease, as restrictive lung disease, or, when obstructive lung disease is the main residual, as chronic bronchitis (DC 6600). Rib removal from a thoracoplasty is rated under DC 5297. When active tuberculosis rated under DC 6730 becomes inactive, the VA must request an examination, and any change in the rating follows 38 CFR § 3.105(e). The graduated schedule of 100%, 50% and 30% over 11 years applies only to veterans who were entitled to compensation for tuberculosis on August 19, 1968 (DCs 6721 to 6724).