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 and/or weight reduction
• Bioenergetic therapy
• Biofeedback for psychosomatic conditions
• Carbon dioxide therapy
• Counseling services (i.e. nutritional counseling, stress management, marital therapy, or 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 are not 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 (i.e. dyslexia, developmental mathematics disorders, developmental language disorders, and developmental articulation disorders)
• Training analysis
• Transcendental meditation
• Z therapy

There may be additional exclusions that aren't on this list.