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Old 05-04-2014, 10:38 AM
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Does the prescription allow you to charge your insurance with bottle rental and o2 refills or just the ability to purchase the stuff from a medical supply house?
It would allow the purchase from a medical supply outlet. Insurance only covers what it deems to be medically necessary, which aviation oxygen is not.

As a pilot, consider your insurance claim record to be the same or worse than your medical record. The claims database is easily searched by the feds. While you might go to the doc for an upset stomach, the doc might bill for "palpitations." On a follow-up visit the doc can update the medical file to read "chile con carne syndrome," but the palpitations bell has been rung in the insurance database. As a pilot, consider the concept of paying cash for certain kinds of investigations with a separate provider (preferably with paper charts) and to review the results of such workups with a hired-gun aeromedical service before involving your insurance (if you can afford it).
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Old 05-04-2014, 11:00 AM
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With welding gas so cheap and available, why bother with a script from the doctor?
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Old 05-04-2014, 12:04 PM
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+1 what AV8AZ said. For your insurance to even consider it, the prescription would need to be associated with a justifying diagnosis. What would you prefer on your record, heart disease or lung disease? As soon as your insurance company figures out what is going on (and they will) you and your doc are both subject to fraud charges, and you lose your insurance coverage. Still sound like a good idea?

Just do what Rocky suggested. Welders O2 is fine. This has been discussed in previous posts ad nauseum. Nothing has changed.

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Old 05-04-2014, 12:12 PM
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Good question. In my case the local welding gas supplier will not put welding oxygen into a "medical oxygen" bottle, without a prescription, so I went and got one. When I queried them as to what rule that was, they only would tell me that "Obama makes them do that"

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Old 05-04-2014, 12:20 PM
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What are the potential ramifications of an O2 prescription on your medical?

I'd hate to open up a can of worms.
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Old 05-04-2014, 12:52 PM
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Has anyone ever had an FBO not fill up a tank when you are out of town without script? At home it is easy - get a big tank and fill your plane tank. Everyone is happy then.

The other option is to spray some paint, scratch, and put some rock band stickers on your small tank and tell the guy at the gas shop you got the tank cheap.
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Old 05-04-2014, 01:09 PM
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What are the potential ramifications of an O2 prescription on your medical?

I'd hate to open up a can of worms.
Kyle,

See post #13

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Old 05-05-2014, 01:34 PM
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The welding o2 vs the aviation or medical 02 is the same with the exception of any breathing o2 having ran through a line heater to burn out any other impurities.
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Old 05-05-2014, 02:11 PM
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"Obama makes them do that"

For your information, prescriptions have been required under Regan, Bush, Clinton and Bush as well. That's three republican and two democratic administration. Let the read draw their own conclusions.
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Old 05-05-2014, 02:42 PM
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The welding o2 vs the aviation or medical 02 is the same with the exception of any breathing o2 having ran through a line heater to burn out any other impurities.
Huh?

They all come out of the same truck.
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