I also believe "they" are the health insurance industry, who look for any reason they can find to not pay for sleep apnea diagnosis and treatment. To the health insurance industry, they blame EVERYTHING on being overweight or obesity. EVERYTHING. "Have a headache? LOSE SOME WEIGHT!"
Im surprised the insurance industry has not tried to use the obesity claim on psychiatry stuff. "Depressed? LOSE SOME WEIGHT!" LOL
Anyway, I really believe there is a lot of patient abandonment going on these days. Especially in cases where a patient has managed care health insurance or medicaid or a lower tier health insurance plan like United Healthcare. Doctors have a contractual and a fiduciary duty to their patients to make sure their diagnosis and treatment is proper medical care, thorough and so on. Breaching that is not negligence or a tort, its criminal and as I said, I believe more doctors need to start getting prosecuted in the criminal system for patient abandonment or not following through thoroughly, poor follow on, etc.
LSAT wrote:MrGrumpy wrote: THEY do not know what they are talking about.