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2025 Blue Cross and Blue Shield Service Benefit Plan - Standard and Basic Option
Section 5(e). Mental Health and Substance Use Disorder Benefits
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Benefit Description

Not Covered (Inpatient or Outpatient)

Services performed or billed by schools, halfway houses, group homes or members of their staffs

Note: We cover professional services as described in this section when they are provided and billed by a covered professional provider acting within the scope of their license.
Psychoanalysis or psychotherapy credited toward earning a degree or furtherance of education or training regardless of diagnosis or symptoms that may be present
Services performed or billed by residential therapeutic camps (e.g., wilderness camps, Outward Bound, etc.)
Hippotherapy/equine therapy (exercise on horseback)
Light boxes
Custodial or long term care (see Definitions)
Costs associated with enabling or maintaining providers’ telehealth (telemedicine) technologies, non-interactive telecommunication such as email communications, or asynchronous store-and-forward telehealth services

Standard Option - You Pay
All charges

Basic Option - You Pay
All charges

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