Re: Texas and brain-injured children

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> Dear Mr. Freels, Thank you for your recent email regarding the use

>of HBOT for people with brain injuries. Plese rest assured that I am

>familiar with the use of HBOT both for decompression of divers and for

>the treatment of kidney stones, however, I have not previously heard of

>its use for brain injuries. If the photos you sent along accurately

>portray the result of HBOT, then it is, indeed, very important for us to

>provide access to this treatment. A copy of your correspondence has been

>printed and given to Senator Madla and forwarded to Ford, his

>Legislative Assistant for Health and Education. will research

>this issue further, and both she and I will brief the Senator regarding

>our findings. I feel certain that will contact you sometime in

>the near future, but until then, please don't hesitate to her at (512)

>463-0119 or victoria.ford@... if you have any questions or

>wish to discuss the matter further. Again, thank you for your input.

>Yours truly, Sherry Muller

>Chief of Staff Office of Senator Madla

>sherry.muller@... (210) 927-9464 Texas Legislature

>Online: www.capitol.state.tx.us

Ms. Muller,

Those photos are snapshots taken from downloadable before/after video found

at http://oceanhbo.com/studies/studies.htm .

Have you had an opportunity to review the explanation of Paragraph 5 of the

EPSDT statute, i.e., the Medicaid law for children?

You should have also received an accompanying pdf file of a recent Georgia

court decision that ordered Georgia Medicaid to reimburse hyperbaric oxygen

for my son Jimmy. If you did not receive these files please let me know,

and I will resend them.

There is substantial documentation on the use of hyperbaric oxygen for

brain-injury that can be downloaded from

medicaid/files/ .

It has been my understanding that Texas HB 1676 specifically allowed for

reimbursement of Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy for brain-injury in Texas.

However, over the weekend, a post was made that a San hyperbaric

clinic would not be allowed Medicaid reimbursement for a cp child.

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Date: Sat, 9 Feb 2002 13:59:41 EST

Subject: Re: [ ] HBOT in Texas-- not paying for children!!!

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Talk to Barns who runs the San Hyperbarics. His information

on the MUMS website is inaccurate (he spoke to yesterday about

updating), but I just spoke to him this morning. Toll-free phone number is

866-249-3680, email: sahbot115@....

He says that House Bill 1676 which everyone hoped would get HBOT for CP kids

was badly watered down by the state insurance commission...the Bill now

supports only " acquired brain injury " (e.g., stroke victims) and specifically

excludes cp at birth.

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I do not understand how cp could be excluded since cp is generally

" acquired " during the birthing process itself--and can be remedied with

hyperbaric oxygen.

E. Cuauhtimoc R., M.D in Mexico City is now treating babies born

prematurely with just an hour or two of hyperbaric oxygen and they later

have no neurological deficits. I will send you his paper under separate

cover.

I encourage you to pursue a review of this very, very important issue.

You may recall that former Texas governor W. Bush has stated that

" no child will be left behind " . If a child cannot access enough oxygen to

live a normal life then that child will only be left behind.

Thank you very much and God bless for your continued interest.

Freels

2948 Windfield Circle

Tucker, GA 30084-6714

770/491-6776 (phone and fax)

509/275-1618 (efax, sends fax as email attachment)

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