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DD Form 2526 is a Department of Defense form, not a service form: DD 2526, Case Abstract for Malpractice Claims, February 2000, used to Case Abstract for Malpractice Claims. The DD prefix is the operative fact. It means one blank serves every military department — Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, Space Force, Coast Guard under Defense jurisdiction — plus the defense agencies and combatant commands. No branch variant exists.
Requirement traces to not stated; the form belongs to not stated. Everything about schedule sits below that in local instruction, which is where to ask if a date matters.
Edition not stated, status not stated. That comparison is the first thing worth making, because a DD form supersedes centrally and an old copy in a shared drive is out of date for every office, not just yours.
Formats: PDF. Length 4 pages, approximately 182 entries.
All formats are free. One operational note: save the file locally and open it in a desktop reader. Browser-embedded viewers drop field properties and lose typed data without warning.
What the form asks for
- Press this Reset button to clear the data from all fields.
- 2. Claimant last name.
- 3. Type of report. Press space bar to mark X in first box if initial, second box if correction or addition, third box if revision to action, or fourth box if void previous report.
- b. Ending date.
- 4. Date(s) of act(s) or omission(s) (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day). a. Beginning date.
- 1. Date of report (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day, no dividers).1. Date of report (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day, no dividers).
- 5. Date claim filed (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day, no dividers).1. Date of report (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day.
- 6. Date of judgment or settlement (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day.
- 7. Medical treatment facility. a. Name.
- b. DMIS code.
- 8. Practitioner information. a. Name (last, first, middle).
- b. Social security number. Do not include dashes.
- c. Date of birth (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day).
- d. Name of professional school attended.
- e. Date graduated (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day).
- f. Specialty code.
- g. Status. X first box if Army, second box if Navy, third box if Air Force, fourth box if PHS, fifth box if civilian GS, sixth box if partnership internal, seventh box if partnership external, eighth box if personnel services contract, or ninth box if non-personnel services contract.
- h. Source of accession. (1) Military. X if volunteer.
- X if Armed Forces Health Professional scholarship program.
- X if Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences.
- X if National Guard.
- X if Reserve.
- X if other.
- (2) Civilian. X if Civil Service.
Start by matching the printed date to not stated. Old blanks accumulate in shared folders for years. Because the Department reissues to all services in one action, nobody is still accepting the previous layout by local custom.
Field-level questions go to the printed instructions, then to not stated, which is authoritative.
Send it as not stated or local guidance specifies. Save a copy. Cross-service and cross-agency routing is normal for Department forms, and a lost original outside your own organization is harder to chase down.
A number is a complete address in the DD series. Because the sequence is Department-level and not duplicated per service, there is nothing further to specify.
Where a procedure cites both a service form and a DD form, the two are unconnected. Service numbering answers to a service proponent, DD numbering to not stated or another Department office, and the two sequences were never aligned. Matching numbers mean nothing whatever.
Three drivers of revision: directive reissue, altered collection requirements, updated statutory notice text. No notification accompanies any of them, so download fresh and confirm not stated rather than reusing an archived file.
Limits of this page: it distributes a published Department of Defense document and describes it. No legal advice, no procedural ruling, no statement about whether any submission will be accepted. Applicability, eligibility and procedure belong to not stated, to a servicing personnel office, or to the office named in not stated.
Questions and answers
- What is DD Form 2526?
- DD 2526, Case Abstract for Malpractice Claims, February 2000
- Which edition is current?
- Not stated by the publisher
- Who is responsible for this form?
- Not stated
- In which formats can it be downloaded?