Extended Care Health Option
The TRICARE Extended Care Health Option (ECHO) provides financial assistance to active duty family members who qualify based on specific mental or physical disabilities, and offers an integrated set of services and supplies not available through the basic TRICARE program.
TRICARE ECHO supplements the benefits of the TRICARE program option you currently use—TRICARE Prime (including TPRADFM), TRICARE Standard, or TRICARE Extra.
Qualifying conditions include:
- Moderate or severe mental retardation
- Serious physical disability
- Extraordinary physical or psychological condition of such complexity that the beneficiary is confined to their home
- A diagnosis of a neuromuscular developmental condition or other condition in an infant or toddler that is expected to precede a diagnosis of moderate or severe mental retardation or a serious physical disability
- Multiple disabilities, which may qualify if there are two or more disabilities affecting separate body systems
For those who qualify, TRICARE ECHO provides benefits not available through the basic TRICARE program. These benefits may include:
- Medical and rehabilitative services
- Training to use assistive technology devices
- Special education
- Institutional care when a residential environment is required
- Transportation under certain circumstances
- Assistive services, such as those from a qualified interpreter or translator
- Durable equipment, including adaptation and maintenance
- Expanded in-home medical services through TRICARE ECHO Home Health Care
- In-home respite care services:
- ECHO Respite care—16 hours per month when receiving other authorized ECHO benefits
- TRICARE ECHO Home Health Care Respite care—up to 40 hours per week (eight hours per day, five days per week) for those who qualify
Contact Humana Military for more information about qualifying for ECHO.
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