Janknitz We are in OR so kaiser NW. I have heard that if you change Medicare plans the rental clock starts over. No other insurances Had Medicare, another advantage plan prior to here. Got the new cpap machine a month after moving here. First CPAP was 2008, I don’t know or how long it has been used ...

Because someone asked and this is not so easy to find… To find the Medicare advocates in your state, Go to www.medicare.com. Scroll down until you see Get free personalized health insurance counseling State Health Insurance Assistance Programs (SHIPs) help people with Medicare and their families mak...

Shoot lost the post I did. Update - short story: I fought back and forth with the sleep Dr. being adamant about the CMS stating what I said (oximeter with Cpap showing less than 10 ahi). I said show me the CMS that says differently and adamant about a cardiologist sign off. All while waiting for the...

OZIJ, As I said, the sleep Dr was refusing to do any study other than a split study, didn’t matter what I was asking for he insisted, adamantly and repeatedly, that a split study was needed.

So as long as you are a Kaiser Senior Advantage member--possibly for the rest of your life--you will have to pay a monthly 20% rental co-pay for CPAP and an O2 concentrator. To my surprise Kaiser does not charge me for rent on a CPAP - senior advantage plan. New machine ordered last Dec, it was a o...

Ozij, the type of oximeter the patient owns is irrelevant. They don't know your equipment nor it's history, they want to use their own equipment. It can be the exact same model as would be sent to the patient (by the Dr / DME / Sleep lab), or even a better quality one but their equipment must be use...

Chunkyfrog, I am not sure what your comment is in reference to….. The medicare advocacy group is volunteers - not part of Medicare or any insurance or medical groups. They do a great job, but they give advice and previously cut thru red tape. I am very happy they did a thorough check and then pointe...

Thanks everyone for your input. We are in a HMO because the other choice in our state was waiting for 3-6 months to see any Dr, meaning no cpap supplies, no new cpap machine - it was time, no medicines, and no annual exam and no annual cardiology tests (which found the new heart problems), and no co...

We heard back from the Medicare advocacy group. FYI, we highly recommend using them when you need support. They have pulled a rabbit out of their hats previously to get exceptions for Medicare rules (allowed a plan change when not eligible to do so at that time) - and it took a few days vs months of...

I am hearing what seems like crazy things from my sleep Dr about what Medicare requires for equipment and I wanted to check if any of you had this experience (or didn't have to do this). Short story: I need to add some O2 to my cpap. I meet the medicare requirements for this - medical conditions = p...

Just jumping in here to give people some info. Standards for needing O2 with your cpap (cpap working effectively so AHIs down), has been a handful of minutes below 88 (e.g. 4, 5 - it changes over time). Many things can lower O2 that a cpap can't fix, thing people may not know they have. Such as pulm...

Pugsy, Thanks for the info. I actually just got things working and was coming back to give additional information. Yes, I saw what you posted but there are also special notes saying that the new 2.0 version of the cms50F is not working. The 2.0 version is the one being sold these days and the one I ...

I am reviving this thread. With Oscar not able to read the latest Contec CMS550F oximeters, I installed virtualbox on my Mac (with a windows 10 virtual machine). Virtual box recognizes there is an oximeter plugged into the usb port. However, SPO2 assistant (version 3.0.1) is not able to find any dev...