Where the HELL do they (Lipsky and Berendt) get $50,000 for a full course of HBOT for wound healing?

[Guest guest]

I just ran across this:

" But there are concerns. HBOT is available in only a minority of communities, is

very expensive (a full course of treatment in the U.S. typically costs $50,000

[Medicare] to $200,000 [private pay]), and is time-consuming (an average of 60

total hours in the chamber”

" Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy for Diabetic Foot Wounds: Has hope hurdled hype?”

A. Lipsky and R. Berendt

Diabetes Care April 28, 2010 vol. 33 no. 5 1143-1145

If this had been published in 1990, I might have accepted 50-200,000. But a

60-session course, I’m assuming at essentially a 1.5 ATA protocol, at prices

that tte quoted to me in late 2009 is under $20,000. How the hell do they

get even $50,000? Are are Lipsky and Berendt people who have a bias like

appears to regarding brain injury? Or are they just woefully ignorant

about current costs? Anyway, didn’t the “Hyperbaric Medicine Prohibition”

article say that CMS just reduced reimbursement to around $200 per session?

That works out to “only” $12,000 for a 60-session course.

Jim