Extended Care Health Option (ECHO)
Chapter 9
Section 7.1
Treatment
Issue Date: July
3, 1997
Revision:
1.0 PROCEDURE
CODES
All valid and applicable HCPCS Levels I
and II codes.
2.0 POLICY
2.1 Treatment through
the use of medical, habilitative, or rehabilitative methods, techniques, therapies,
equipment, prosthetic devices, orthopedic braces and appliances,
may be cost-shared subject to all other applicable Extended Care
Health Option (ECHO) requirements.
2.2 Services cost-shared through the ECHO may
be provided by an authorized institutional or individual professional
provider on an inpatient or outpatient basis and rendered in the
beneficiary’s natural environment. This includes at home, at school,
or other location that is suitable for the type of services being
rendered.
3.0 EXCLUSION
Treatment
services available under the TRICARE Basic Program are not eligible
to be cost-shared under the ECHO.
4.0 EFFECTIVE
DATE
September 1, 2005.
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