www.inogenone.com/Travel/ — which offers information on several travel modes and approved airlines; AirSep’s site — www.airsep.com/medical/AirLinePOCs.html — which provides a list of airlines that currently accept the company’s POCs; and the FAA’s site — www.tsa.gov/travelers/airtravel/specialneeds/editorial_1374.shtm#2 — which offers guidelines for flying with oxygen.
“It is kind of tricky to start up a travel program. In the end, it’s just a lot of legwork and research, I would say, and decisions on how you’re going to help your patients,” Werkmeister says. “To me it’s a niche. It’s cash. (Providers are) crazy if they don’t (take traveling patients).”