Mental Health Exclusions

TRICARE doesn’t cover the following services:

Aversion therapy (including electric shock and the use of chemicals for alcoholism, except for disulfiram, which is covered for the treatment of alcoholism)
Behavioral health care services and supplies related solely to obesity or weight reduction
Bioenergetic therapy
Biofeedback for psychosomatic conditions
Carbon dioxide therapy
Counseling services (including nutritional counseling, stress management, marital therapy, and lifestyle modifications)
Custodial nursing care
Diagnostic admissions
Educational programs
Environmental ecological treatments
Experimental procedures
Filial therapy
Guided imagery
Hemodialysis for schizophrenia
Marathon therapy
Megavitamin or orthomolecular therapy
Narcotherapy with LSD
Primal therapy
Psychosurgery
Rolfing
Sedative action electrostimulation therapy
Services and supplies that aren’t medically or psychologically necessary for the diagnosis and treatment of a covered condition
Sexual dysfunction therapy
Stellate ganglion block for the treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder
Telephone counseling (except for geographically distant family therapy related to residential treatment center care)
Therapy for developmental disorders (including dyslexia, developmental mathematics disorders, developmental language disorders, and developmental articulation disorders)
Training analysis
Transcendental meditation
Z therapy

There may be other exclusions that aren’t on this list.

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