About Healing Chambers, International . . .  a high-quality dispensary of a prescription drug known as high-density oxygen (commonly called HBOT)

  Healing Chambers International is a guild of Centers with the Mission is to make hyperbaric oxygen therapy ("HBOT") available and affordable to all persons who need it. We are expanding  our affiliated out-patient Centers around the World to ensure that specialist physicians can, if they choose, prescribe HBOT as an adjunct to their usual response to disease and trauma, having full confidence that their orders will be carried out to the high standards of any hospital.

The hospital-quality Healing Chambers International  (HCI) affiliated  centers will  dispense high density oxygen (HBOT) to any patient with a prescription (“Rx”) from a registered Medical Doctor (M.D.), Doctor of Osteopathy (D.O.) or Doctor of Dental Surgery (D.D.S)

 If that  Rx. is for any of the “approved for reimbursement" maladies then the patient is always encouraged to go to a hospital-based hyperbaric medical department for their sessions.

 What is an FDA “accepted” use of an hyperbaric oxygen therapy chamber?* 

Currently, 13 clinical indications have been accepted for premarket review and clearance of hyperbaric chambers:

§  Air or Gas Embolism

§  Carbon Monoxide Poisoning Carbon Monoxide Poisoning Complicated By Cyanide Poisoning

§  Clostridial Myositis and Myonecrosis (Gas Gangrene)

§  Crush Injury, Compartment Syndrome and Other Acute Traumatic Ischemias

§  Decompression Sickness

§  Enhancement of Healing In Selected Problem Wounds

§  Severe Anemia

§  Intracranial Abscess

§  Necrotizing Soft Tissue Infections

§  Osteomyelitis (Refractory)

§  Delayed Radiation Injury (Soft Tissue and Bony Necrosis)

§  Compromised Grafts and Flaps

§  Acute Thermal Burn Injury

However, not all hyperbaric chambers qualify for all indications because the actual performance of each hyperbaric chamber may not be acceptable for every indication. Marketing of the use of a hyperbaric chamber is expected to conform to the product label based upon information that the FDA has determined as safe and effective use of the device.

Source: Food and Drug Administration

·          The FDA  “acceptance” is for the premarket  510-K “Clearance to market the chambers." Consequently, the chambers with this 510-K cannot be promoted  as a "cure" for any other malady or injury. However,  "off-label” prescriptive use of such a 510-K chamber is  lawful.

 Note: the FDA uses the word “accepted” in the appropriate context, and the substitution of the word “approved” is highly misleading to patients and physicians.

The FDA chooses to defer to the recommendations of the Undersea and Hyperbaric Medicine Society, (“UHMS”), an advisory body only of health scientists. The UHMS is  not an enforcement arm of the FDA. 

Insurance companies and Medicare/Medical/Medicaid follow the UHMS list and limit their payments to these UHMS “approved” maladies, and traumas.   Hospital based chambers have a much higher fixed-cost operational environment and cannot treat off-label maladies, even private pay patients..

Usual hospital charges are above $1,800.00 per 90 minute sessions.  Not all patients have insurance, thus the need for low cost hospital-quality centers such as Healing Chambers International affiliates.

Typically, the cost of a 90 minute session in an FDA “cleared” hospital grade ASME-PVHO-1 chamber at an HCI dispensary is less than $260.00 per session.

The rates are negotiable at the HCI center you choose to attend.  Rates depend on a number of factors at that Center and can be less than $200.00 per 90 minute treatment session.

 Contact your local HCI Program Director.

Patients with health insurance:

 Please Note: Healing Chambers International is unable to bill Medicare/Medical/Medicare for patient treatments, even if they are within the UHMS “approved for reimbursement” list.

 However, Healing Chambers International will bill insurance companies for such “approved” treatments IF the patient has prior written from that insurer, specifying the HCI Center where their physicians Rx will be filled.  Prior to the first  treatment session, patients will be required to deposit the usual insurance “co-pay” for their treatments in advance.

 CLUB CARSON scholarships: 

Some patients, young and old, may qualify for a Club Carson endowment for the majority cost of their treatments.

Club Carson is not a non-profit corporation and relies on the gifts and generous hearts of donors.

If you think you may qualify, talk to the Program Director. You will be asked to fill out a financial statement for submission to the local Club Carson committee for their decision.