Medicare's current Covered Conditions List (June 2006) Acute Carbon Monoxide Intoxication Decompression illness Gas embolism Gas gangrene Acute traumatic peripheral ischemia. (As an adjunct to accepted standard therapeutic measures when loss of function, limb, or life is threatened) Crush injuries and suturing of severed limbs. (As an adjunctive treatment when loss of function, limb, or life is threatened) Progressive necrotizing infections (necrotizing fasciitis) Acute peripheral arterial insufficiency Preparation and preservation of compromised skin grafts (not for primary management of wounds) 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 (e.g. radiation cystitis, radiation proctitis) Cyanide poisoning Actinomycosis, (as an adjunct to conventional therapy when the disease process is refractory to antibiotics and surgical treatment) Diabetic wounds of the lower extremities in patients who meet the following three criteria: a. Patient has type I or type II diabetes and has a lower extremity wound that is due to diabetes; b. Patient has a wound classified as Wagner grade III or higher; and c. Patient has failed an adequate course of standard wound therapy. The use of HBO therapy is covered as adjunctive therapy only after there are no measurable signs of healing for at least 30 days of treatment with standard wound therapy and must be used in addition to standard wound care. Noncovered Conditions All other indications not specified under §270.4(A) (above) are not covered under the Medicare program. No program payment may be made for any conditions other than those listed in §270.4(A).