DME

[Anonymous]

DME stands for Durable Medical Equipment.

A DME Provider, also referenced as a DME, typically accepts insurance in exchange for CPAP Equipment.

[gardenrodent]

Thanks...

[rested gal]

Hi Bob (love your "gardenrodent" nickname, btw. )

Anonymous answered the question you posted in another thread. In case you haven't revisited that thread, here was my response:

Please help the ignorant, what is DME?

Thanks

Bob

Hi Bob,

You're not ignorant at all. Took me a long time to understand what's "DME".

The initials stand for "durable medical equipment." Message board posters use "DME" as ungrammatical shorthand to refer to home health care supplies stores as "DME"s, and also to refer to employees of those stores.

Example:

My DME is Apria. (the store)

My DME tried three masks on me, but she said only one fit me well. (the employee)

Technically online cpap supply stores are also "DME"'s -- stores that sell durable medical equipment over the internet. But when message board posters talk about "DME"s, we generally mean the bricks and mortar home health care stores that you walk into in your town.

[Patrick A]

I always wondered what "DME meant !!!

[gardenrodent]

Thanks folks, I thought it must be a stateside thing, but I really wasn't sure

Luckily for me I didn't have to deal with all that, but the down side is I don't really get much choice, I think... Having said that, this is all early days, as I've been away on a long holiday and business, I have not yet had a return trip to the sleep nurse. Under normal circumstances I would have gone back a week later, then again at the end of the month. As things are at the moment I think I am forgotten

Tomorrow I will remind them that I exist!

Thanks for making me feel welcome...

[snoregirl]

Your post gets me wondering. You haven't had to deal with DME's and you don't get much choice???


This makes me guess that you are dealing with one of those all-in-one sleep center places. Of course I could be wrong.

But if I am not, and while that may all be great, consider calling your insurance and you may indeed have a choice and get to pick your DME brick and mortar or online.

If this is the case, make sure you really like what this all-in-one place is handing you or your options to go elsewhere using insurance may no longer be available.

And get a copy of your sleep studies and prescription in case the relationship sours.

OOPS I just noticed your profile and a Remstar Plus is listed so you already have a machine. Well the rest is no longer relevant, but getting a copy of your study and presecription is still a good idea.

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[gardenrodent]

Ah, no, the more important bit is that I am in the UK and the NHS is providing, hence no knowledge of DME's (and the occasional weird spellings ). I had a very basic sleep study, basically I wore the finger tip device to determine if and when my blood oxygen levels were falling and how often. This was done over a typical nights sleep at home.

The local hospital does have a sleep unit, and I have seen the room, ugh, shiver! I have to have a study some time in the future, I am not really sure yet. As I have posted elsewhere, for the moment I have been forgotten

I'll keep you posted on what else gives...

Bob

[Vader]

You mean it don't stand for Devils Manipulating Everyone?

:::runs:::

[Hose_Head]

Deja vu all over again.

[Pugsy]

If members would use the report spam button for stuff like the south beach stuff (or whatever) in these old threads they will go back to being old and disappear. It is rare that I have used the report spam button and have the old thread stay in front.
When we respond to trivial stuff like "hi, glad to find this", obvious spam or even sneaky spam, it then stays in front.

Best thing to do is just delete it using the report spam button. Newbie members get the report spam active after being here a short while, I forget just how long. Seems like it was 90 days for me.

[Otter]

Ah, no, the more important bit is that I am in the UK and the NHS is providing, hence no knowledge of DME's (and the occasional weird spellings ). I had a very basic sleep study, basically I wore the finger tip device to determine if and when my blood oxygen levels were falling and how often. This was done over a typical nights sleep at home.

How did you or your sleep nurse determine what pressure to use?

[LSAT]

OTTER....The post you are questioning is from October 2006...over 4 years ago.

[Pugsy]

Yes, the post was resurrected by spammer for cpap supplies. I have left the 2 spam posts in place since thread has been resurrected by a response. That way newbies can see what resurrected the thread.

For newbies, after 90 days and/or some number of posts you will see a report spam button and you can then remove spam. Just watch closely as sometimes it is obvious spam and they don't bother to register. This spammer did register and then posted a generic comment with a link to their cpap supply website in their signature. I guess they think we aren't smart enough to recognize it for what it is.

Best thing when a newbie sees this sort of stuff, leave it alone, someone will come along and remove the spam and the thread will go back in the archives. Once it gets responded to it brings it forward and open for more responses from people who have not read it and don't notice it was old thread. Often original poster doesn't even frequent the boards anymore.

[chunkyfrog]

spam?

[Pugsy]

spam?

Yep, had link to medical equipment company in signature so it got zapped.

They seem to like to resurrect old threads. Seems like a lot of work to me for maybe a minute or 2 of life because they are quickly removed. They make a generic comment in the post and try to sneak spam link in signature. Must think we are a bunch of dummies here.