CEREBROSPINALECTOMY
Me: "He needs high-flow oxygen at home." Insurer: "Oxygen is covered when the blood oxygen level is low." Me: "His is normal. That is not what it is for." Insurer: "Then what is it treating?" Me: "The worst pain in medicine, in about a quarter of an hour, for the price of a tank." Send this to anybody who has fought for a tank of oxygen.
EXPLAINED (ACCURACY-CHECKED)
High-flow oxygen is an established first-line acute treatment for cluster headache attacks. Home oxygen coverage criteria are typically built around hypoxaemia, which people with cluster headache do not have, and this mismatch is a long-standing access problem.
Established + PubMed-verified: high-flow oxygen is first-line acute therapy for cluster headache and coverage is a documented barrier (PMID 28842974). Literature tool reachable this run.
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