[quote="Anonymous"]Hello TuckNRoll. I appreciate your detailed carefully done post. I have been hanging around here and had my eyes opened. I do wonder if all of this activity is helping patients. It seems a crazy way to do things. Why are people driving around? Seems expensive and wasteful. The equ...

The Medicare program has recently implemented a "competitive bidding" plan which will start out in 10 of the largest Medicare service areas on July 1st 2008 and eventually be Nationwide. This plan which is meant to save millions of dollars is going to affect each and every Medicare recipient of dura...

Being employed in the DME industry for over 20 years, I have learned that regardless of whomever has regulations, some providers will sell whatever it may be, even if it does require an Rx. Even a hand held nebulizer kit (tubing, cup and mouthpiece) states on the packaging "U.S. Federal law restrict...

It depends on the pulse oximeter that the company is providing to you. Some Oximeters do indeed require an Rx while others do not. Prior to about a year ago, they all did and several manufacturers found a way around the requirement and started producing models that do not require an Rx. The company ...

[quote="sleepie"]my wifes uncle{73} has been on cpap since 91,,he is the one that told me i needed it and so i did,,ok on with the story---his first pressure was 13,,,five years ago he tells the dr,,that hes been feeling sleepie lately,,so with nothing the dr says go have the pressure turned up to 1...

Respironics was just recently aquired by Royal Philips Electronics and I think that may have something to do with the pricing policy.

This is what it took for me. I was just like your husband, I refused to believe that I had a problem until my wife took a video of me and I saw how bad it really was. I was told by the masses for years, how badly I snored, but refused to believe it until I saw it for my own eyes. Unfortunately, this...

There must be a reason that your supplier wants you to sign an ABN, and that must be written on the ABN prior to you signing it. Medicare will pay 80% of an allowed amount and BC/BS will pick up the other 20% of that amount regardless. There are also only certain reasons that a Medicare provider can...

I just recently got insurance coverage through my job and haven't been to a doctor in many years. I decided that I would find myself a doc and get the full battery of tests (including a sleep study since everyone I know tells me how horribly I snore). The doctor set me up with an appointment at the ...

I got my first sleep study done this Monday 12/17 and I can't wait to begin treating this horrible condition. I am 35 and have heard all the complaints from loved ones about how aweful my snoring is. My wife and I have separate bedrooms because she is a light sleeper and can not tolerate the "bear g...