Conditions currently being treated with Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy
Please note that New conditions are regularly being added to the list of FDA-approved ailments for treatment.
Please check back to see if your condition applies as this may favorably affect reimbursement of
your medical expenses related to HBOT. Research is ongoing in this area of alternative therapy.
Therefore, by the time you read this there may already be new uses for HBOT.
FDA approved conditions
As of this date, the following conditions have been listed by the U.S. Food and
Drug Administration as appropriate for HBOT treatment and reimbursable under
federal Medicare and Medicaid plans:
- Air or gas embolism
- Carbon monoxide poisoning and carbon monoxide poisoning complicated by cyanide
poisoning
- Clostridial myositis and myonecrosis
- Crush injury, compartment syndrome and other acute traumatic ischemias
- Decompression sickness
- Enhanced healing of selected problem wounds
- Exceptional blood loss anemia
- Necrotizing soft tissue infections
- Osteomyelitis (refractory)
- Delayed radiation injury (soft tissue and bony necrosis)
- Skin grafts and flaps (compromised)
- Thermal burns
- Inter-cranial abscess
- Infections of all types - bone & tissue
- Chronic wound care
- Radiation Therapy Complications
Contact your medical insurance provider to confirm if hyperbaric oxygen therapy
is covered under your policy as coverage varies from state to state.
Conditions which have shown improvement