TRICARE Now Paying for Services Provided By an Assistant
On March 16, 2020, the Department of Defense issued the long awaited Final Rule titled “TRICARE; Addition of Physical Therapist Assistants and Occupational Therapy Assistants as TRICARE-Authorized Providers” with an effective date of April 16, 2020. This means that beginning with dates of services on and after April 16, 2020, a physical therapist assistant (PTA) and occupational therapy assistant (OTA) are now considered a TRICARE-Authorized Provider. I originally wrote about this change in an article I published on March 16, 2020 for my Gold Members. On April 15, 2020, the American Physical Therapy Association (APTA) published an article discussing the