The International Hyperbaric Medical Association (IHMA) is a non-profit organization working to make hyperbaric oxygen therapy the standard of care for all instances where a physician believes saturating a patient’s body with oxygen could improve a patients clinical outcomes.

Accomplishments

• Hundreds of Million of Medicare Dollars Saved: An estimated $348 million is being saved by preventing just 11% of the 158,000 amputations every year, using HBOT. (IHMA petitioned for the Medicare National Coverage Determination, granted in 2002.)
• Working with Congress (Registered Lobbying Team in Washington, D.C.):
  • TBI Treatment Act (HR 396) passed three times unanimously in the House of Representatives (died in the Senate twice) Pending Today!
  • Numerous Testimonies before Congress
• Working with State Legislatures & Local Governments
  • Partnered with the National Foundation for Women Legislators.
  • Presentations to California, Nevada, North Dakota, Oklahoma and Texas state and local governments
• Working with DoD Medicine to help Veterans with TBI or PTSD

Goals

• Hyperbaric Centers Available in Every Community in America
• Routine Use with burn patients (HBOT saves thousands with better outcomes.)
• Solving America’s Largest Public Health Crisis, Untreated Brain Insults. Savings per year: Hundreds of Billions
• Falls & Routine Blunt Trauma & Crush Injuries: $20 billion per year is spent on falls, for which there is currently no routine treatment.
• Preventing 80%+ of all diabetic foot and most other amputations.

Join us in helping to solve America’s key health care problems and make U.S. health care more effective, more efficient, and less expensive.

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