(6) To PCS home or VA hospital. An inpatient sent home or to a VA hospital
pending the decisive of the Army on disability. If PCS home, the patient does not require
continuous medical care; if PCS to VA hospital, the patient requires continuous medical
care, probably for a prolonged period of time.
(7) From absent sick to leave. A service member in facilities other than those
of the U. S. Armed Forces is place on a convalescent leave.
(8) To supplemental care. Those medical services and supplies provided to
beneficiaries under specified circumstances by a civilian source when the patient remains
under the primary control of a uniformed services MTF (U.S. MTF) and the care is paid for
by MTF operating funds. Patients receiving inpatient services will be continued on the
hospital rolls (sick days) of the U.S. MTF and will be charged the U.S. MTF inpatient rate
appropriate to their patient category. This transaction is normally used to send patients to
a civilian medical treatment facility for testing or treatment that the military MTF cannot
provide. The testing and/or treatment requires the patient to remain overnight at the civilian
MTF.
(9) To cooperative care. Those medical services and supplies provided to
beneficiaries under specified circumstances by a civilian source for which CHAMPUS will
share in the cost even though the patient remains under the primary control of the U.S.
MTF. Patients receiving inpatient services will be
continued on the hospital rolls (sick days) but will not be charged the U.S. MTF inpatient
rate. This transaction is normally used to send patients to a civilian medical treatment
facility for testing or treatment that the military MTF cannot provide. The patient remains
overnight. This transaction is never used for active duty military.
(10) To the medical holding unit. This is essentially the same as "to subsisting
out." This is usually for those people who live in the barracks or are not assigned to the
installation where the MTF is located but need to stay for treatment at the MTF.
e. Other Transactions.
(1) Interward transfers. When a patient is moved from one ward to another, it
is called an interward transfer. Generally, the specialty clinic changes at the same time.
(2) Carded for record only CRO. A term which applies to those special cases
for which a medical record is required to be prepared in essentially the same manner as
for an admission, although no admission has actually occurred.
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