Hyperbaric oxygen therapy

Hyperbaric oxygen therapy exposes your entire body to oxygen under increased atmospheric pressure.

Part B may cover hyperbaric oxygen therapy if you 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:
  1. You have Type 1 or Type 2 diabetes and have a lower extremity wound that’s due to diabetes.
  2. You have a wound classified as Wagner grade III or higher.
  3. You’ve failed an adequate course of standard wound therapy.