Medicare Indications

Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy may be used for the following medicare (CMS) approved indications:

• Air or Gas Embolism


• Carbon Monoxide Poisoning and Smoke Inhalation


• Carbon Monoxide Poisoning Complicated by Cyanide Poisoning


• Clostridal Myonecrosis (Gas Gangrene)


• Decompression Sickness (the "Bends")


• Exceptional Blood Loss (Anemia)


• Diabetic Wounds of the Lower Extremities


• Radiation Tissue Damage (Osteoradionecrosis)


• Thermal Burns


• Osteomyelitis (Refractory)


• Skin Grafts and Flaps (Compromised)
  
  
• Osteo-Radionecrosis
  
  
• Crush Injuries, Compartment Syndrome, and other Acute Traumatic Ischemias
  
  
• Enhancement of Healing in Selected Problem Wounds
  
  
• Brown Recluse Spider Bites
  
  
• Soft Tissue Radionecrosis


• Necrotizing Soft Tissue Infections