Conditions Treated
On-Label Conditions Treated with HBOT [These Indications are approved by FDA; insurance typically covers].
CMS: Medicare Part B (Medical Insurance) may cover hyperbaric oxygen therapy, if you have a prescription, get the therapy in a chamber (including a one-person unit), and you have one of these conditions:
- Acute carbon monoxide intoxication
- Decompression illness
- Gas embolism
- Gas gangrene
- Acute traumatic peripheral ischemia
- Crush injuries and suturing of severed limbs
- Progressive necrotizing infections
- Acute peripheral arterial insufficiency
- Preparation and preservation of compromised skin grafts
- Chronic refractory osteomyelitis, 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
- Diabetic wounds of the lower extremities if all of these apply:
- You have Type 1 or Type 2 diabetes and have a lower extremity wound that’s due to diabetes.
- You have a wound classified as Wagner grade III or higher.
- You’ve failed an adequate course of standard wound therapy.
Off-Label Conditions Treated with HBOT [not approved by FDA; insurance typically does not cover]. NOTE: any doctor can ethically and legally prescribe HBOT for any condition for which s/he deems it necessary or important
- Acquired Brain Injury (ABI)
- AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome)
- Allergies, Asthma, Immunity
- ALS (Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis)
- Altitude Mountain Sickness (AMS)
- Alzheimer’s disease
- Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
- Anesthesia Injury
- Anti-Aging
- Antimicrobial activity
- Arthritis – Rheumatoid, Osteoarthritis, Osteoarthrosis
- Asthma
- Atherosclerosis
- Attention Deficit Disorder
- Autism Spectrum Disorder
- Autoimmune Disorders
- Bacterial/Fungal Infections
- Bell’s palsy
- Birth Injury
- Brain Aneurysm
- Brain injuries, TBI/PTSD/Concussion
- Brain Injury caused by Substance Abuse
- Brain Injury from Chemotherapy (“Chemo Brain”)
- Brain Injury from Radiation
- Cancer
- Central Retinal Artery Occlusion
- Cerebral palsy
- Chronic Carbon Monoxide Poisoning
- Chronic Decompression Sickness
- Chronic Fatigue Immune Dysfunction/CFIDS/CFS
- Coma
- Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS)
- Concussion
- Concussion / Traumatic Brain Injury
- Covid – Long-haul Covid
- Crohn’s Disease
- Dementia
- Depression
- Diabetes
- Epilepsy/Seizure Disorders
- Fibromyalgia
- Flesh-eating disease
- Hashimotos
- Hearing Loss
- Heart Disease/Cardiac
- Hepatitis
- HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus)
- Hypoxic Ischemic Encephalopathy
- Hypoxic/Anoxic Brain Injury
- Inflammatory Conditions
- Insect Bites
- Lupus
- Lyme Disease
- Macular Degeneration
- Memory Loss
- Meniere’s Disease
- Menopause Symptoms
- Migraines/Headaches
- Mitochondrial Disorders
- Mold Toxicity
- Multiple Sclerosis (MS)
- Myofascial Pain Syndrome
- Near drowning
- Near-hanging
- Neovascularization
- Osteomyelitis
- Osteoporosis
- Parkinson’s disease
- Peripheral Neuropathy
- Plastic surgery recovery
- Post Concussion Syndrome (PCS)
- Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
- Post-Polio
- Pre/Post Surgical Healing
- Problematic Circulation
- PTSD
- Radiation therapy
- Bell’s Palsy/Cerebral Palsy
- Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy (RSD)
- Rheumatic Diseases
- Scleroderma
- Seizure Disorder
- Shaken Baby Syndrome
- Skin Disorders
- Spinal Injury
- Sports-related injuries/soft tissue healing
- Stem cell generation and therapy
- Stroke
- Tinnitus
- Toxic Encephalopathy
- Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)
- Ulcerative colitis