APPENDIX M: DETAIL CODES Commander's Guide to ... - Tricare

ITEM
NBR
STANDARD
ABBR
APPENDIX M: DETAIL CODES
DESCRIPTION DEFINITION Additional
Instructions/
Comments
179 THAL Thallium Stress Test Thallium Stress Test: Reserved for a
patient who will be asked to exercise
on a treadmill while attached to heart
monitoring equipment and while
undergoing injection of a radiographic
tracing element (Thallium) to evaluate
heart function. Procedure requires
specialized equipment, trained staff,
scheduling of a room, and provider
specified timeframe.
180 TILT Tilt Test, Test for
Syncope
Tilt Test, Test for Syncope: Tilt
table/vagal response test, test for
syncope. Procedure requires
specialized skills and equipment.
181 TOBCES Tobacco Cessation Tobacco Cessation: Counseling/risk
factors assessment for tobacco users.
181a TOUR Hospital Orientation Hospital Orientation: Reserved for
individual or group appointment
orienting patient and significant others,
e.g. Labor, Delivery, Mother-Baby
Unit, Nursery, policies and
procedures.
182 TRACTION Traction Physical
Therapy
Traction Physical Therapy: A
specialized treatment appointment for
patients prescribed traction after an
evaluation by a physical therapist, or a
doctor from Orthopedics, Physical
Medicine & Rehabilitation, or Neuro-
Surgery. Traction treatment is limited
to the number of traction tables
available at each clinic. Traction is the
therapeutic use of manual or
mechanical tension created by a
pulling force to produce a combination
of distraction and gliding to relieve
pain and to increase tissue flexibility.
May combine
with EDU for
education.
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