Decide what you are selling
Everything downstream — the chamber, the insurance, the wording on your website — follows from how you present the session. The three models we see in Australia:
- →Wellness and recovery add-on. A booked session inside a gym, recovery studio, spa or corporate wellness room, sold alongside sauna, ice and infrared. No therapeutic claims are made. This is the simplest model to open and the one most of our clients run.
- →Practitioner-led. A chamber inside an allied-health or medical practice, where a registered practitioner decides who is screened in and what is offered. The practitioner, their insurer and their registration body set the rules.
- →Dedicated hyperbaric centre. A standalone business built around chambers. Higher throughput, higher fit-out, and the model where regulatory and clinical governance questions must be answered before the lease is signed.
Regulatory questions to settle first
- →Therapeutic goods. In Australia a device supplied for a therapeutic purpose must be included in the ARTG. Whether a chamber in your setting is a therapeutic good depends on how it is supplied and presented. Ask the TGA, and get written advice if you intend to make any health claim.
- →Advertising. Anything advertised as having a therapeutic use falls under the Therapeutic Goods Advertising Code, and all marketing falls under the Australian Consumer Law. Testimonials, "treats", "cures" and condition names are where operators get caught.
- →Pressure equipment. Under the model WHS laws, plant above certain hazard levels needs design and item registration with your state or territory regulator. Confirm the position for the specific model and pressure before installation.
- →Insurance. Public liability and, for practitioner-led models, professional indemnity. Describe the use precisely to your insurer; a wellness session and a therapeutic service are priced differently.
- →Consent and screening. A written screening questionnaire and consent form for every client, operator sign-off, and a record of each session. We supply the templates; you own the process.
We supply chambers as wellness equipment, make no therapeutic claims for them, and provide no clinical protocols. The decisions above are yours and your advisers' — we can tell you what other operators have done, not what you should do.
Choose the chamber for the room you have
| Setting | Start with | Why | List price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gym corner | CUBOID Mini | 1.4 × 0.8 m footprint, 2.0 ATA hard-shell | A$29,012 |
| Treatment room, booked sessions | CORE Solo | Clinic width, quietest platform, door the client opens | A$62,788 |
| Feature room, premium pricing | AURA Solo | Panoramic acrylic, the room people photograph | A$72,529 |
| Mobile or home | FLOW Recline 70 | 30 kg, packs down, 1.5 ATA | A$11,776 |
The solutions pages carry a scale room drawing and a worked revenue table for each setting. Send us your floorplan and we return it marked up with one recommendation.
Prepare the room
- →A lockable room or screened bay, 3.0 × 2.4 m or larger.
- →A standard power point on an RCD-protected circuit.
- →Floor loading confirmed for hard-shells on upper floors.
- →5–10 L of purified water for the cooling loop.
- →Delivery path measured at the narrowest doorway.
- →A chair for the operator, storage for towels and water, and a clean-down kit.
Price the session
Operators in Australia typically price a 60-minute booked hard-shell session at A$90–150 depending on the setting, and bundle it into membership tiers, packs of five or ten, and premium spa packages. Gym add-ons sit lower (A$50–80) because they are sold to existing members at volume. Price the session for the room and the neighbourhood, not the chamber.
Run the numbers
A CORE Solo at 30 sessions a week and A$110 a session produces about A$14,300 a month in revenue and about A$12,900 after a 10% allowance for power, water and consumables, covering its list price in roughly five months. The conservative case — 18 sessions at A$90 — still clears it inside ten. Each solutions page has the three-case table for its setting; adjust the price and sessions to your floor.
Open
- →Week 1–2. Room chosen, floorplan sent, chamber ordered, insurer and regulator questions in writing.
- →Week 3–6. Room prepared; website and booking system set up with wording checked against the advertising rules.
- →Week 7. Delivery, commissioning and operator training in one day; screening and consent templates adopted.
- →Week 8. Soft launch to existing members; collect the first bookings before any public campaign.
Questions people ask
Do I need to be a health practitioner to run a chamber?
For a wellness and recovery model, operators are trained by Oxivity at handover and do not need to be registered practitioners. For a practitioner-led or therapeutic model, a registered practitioner must own the clinical decisions, and ARTG and advertising rules apply to how the service is presented.
How long does installation take?
Delivery, positioning, commissioning and operator training are done in one day for single-chamber rooms.
What ongoing supplies will I buy?
Purified water for the cooling loop and periodic filters. There are no oxygen cylinders — the engine generates its own.
Can Oxivity help with the website wording?
We can show you how other operators describe wellness sessions without therapeutic claims. The final wording, and any claim beyond that, is yours to clear with your advisers.
Sources
- Therapeutic Goods Administration — Australian Register of Therapeutic Goods — Whether a device is a therapeutic good depends on how it is supplied and advertised
- TGA — Applying the Therapeutic Goods Advertising Code — Rules for advertising anything presented as having a therapeutic use
- Safe Work Australia — model WHS laws and plant registration — Pressure equipment may need design and item registration depending on its hazard level
- ACCC — Australian Consumer Law, false or misleading claims — Applies to all equipment marketing, therapeutic or not
- Oxivity chamber specifications and list prices — All 21 models, inc GST, as published on this site
Oxivity supplies hyperbaric chambers and related equipment as wellness equipment and makes no therapeutic claims for them. In Australia, a device supplied for a therapeutic purpose must be included in the Australian Register of Therapeutic Goods (ARTG), and advertising of therapeutic goods is governed by the Therapeutic Goods Advertising Code. Whether either applies to your intended use is a question for the Therapeutic Goods Administration and your own advisers. Nothing on this page is medical, legal or financial advice. See our disclaimer.
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