Heart Monitors

TRICARE may cover the use of heart monitors as durable medical equipment for in-home diagnostic data-collection or in-home clinical management of a condition or suspected condition which places the beneficiary at extraordinary risk of life-threatening cardiorespiratory complications that would require 24-hour per day observation would otherwise be clinically indicated.

TRICARE also covers services and items used conjunction with a covered heart monitor.

TRICARE doesn't cover:

  • Screening Pneumograms (a 12- to 24-hour pneumogram (recordings of heart rate and thoracic impedance) accomplished solely as a predictive test for Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) risk or life-threatening apnea risk.
  • Back-up electrical system or any alteration to the beneficiary’s living space.
  • Equipment which monitors only respiration or cardiac function.
Disclaimer:

This list of covered services isn’t all-inclusive. TRICARE covers services that are and considered proven. Some services have special rules or limits, and some services are excluded. Learn how a benefit becomes covered.

Last Updated 3/20/2022