Treatable Diagnoses
Conditions and Diagnoses Treated by Hyperbarics that are Typically Covered by Health Insurance:
- Conditions related to cancer treatments and radiation damage
- Infections in tissue, muscle, bone or skin, and/or drug resistant infections
- Sores and gangrene that will not heal or that are related to diabetes
- Surgical sites with grafts or flaps
- Bones and/or tissue that are difficult to heal
- Acute severe problems from accidents (e.g. crushed leg, arm, fingers)
- Rare conditions such as decompression sickness, anemia, burns, carbon monoxide poisoning, or emboli from air or gas
- Swelling of the brain, cerebral edema
Medicare-Approved Conditions for Hyperbaric Therapy (reimbursable):
- Acute carbon monoxide intoxication
- Decompression illness
- Gas embolism
- Gas gangrene
- Acute traumatic peripheral ischemia. HBO therapy is a valuable adjunctive treatment to be used in combination with accepted standard therapeutic measures when loss of function, limb, or life is threatened.
- Crush injuries and suturing of severed limbs. As in the previous conditions, HBO therapy would be an adjunctive treatment when loss of function, limb, or life is threatened.
- Progressive necrotizing infections (necrotizing fasciitis)
- Acute peripheral arterial insufficiency
- Treatment of compromised skin grafts
- Chronic refractory osteomyelitiis, unresponsive to conventional medical and surgical management
- Osteoradionecrosis as an adjunct to conventional treatment
- Soft tissue radionecrosis as an adjunct to conventional treatment
- Cyanide poisoning
- Actinomycosis, only as an adjunct to conventional therapy when the disease process is refractory to antibiotics and surgical treatment.
Commonly Treated Non-Medicare Conditions:
- Stroke
- Cerebral Palsy
- Lymes Disease
- Autism
- Traumatic brain injury
- Closed head injury
- Coma
- Spinal cord injury
- Migraine/Cluster Headache
- Multiple Sclerosis (certain aspects)
- Macular Degneration
- Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy and other neurological disorders
- Cerebral Edema
- Sickle Cell Disease with Crisis
- Perineal Crohn’s Disease
- Scleroderma
- Sudden blindness or deafness
- Diabetic blindness
- Wounds not covered by Medicare
- Skin and other infections
- Chronic fatigue symptoms
- Eye conditions (such as macular edema)
- Peripheral Vascular Disease
- Diabetes
- Orthopedic problems-sprains/strains chronic or acute/fractures non-healing
- Myocardial problems
- Selected mental health disorders
- Liver detoxification enhancement
- Colon disorders
- Ulcerative Colitis
- Chronic pain
Please have your physician call to consult with us about the benefits of Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy to your patients!