Sounds fishy. Our DME companies in the area already have an insurance list printed for pts that they receive in their packets for CPAP set up. This is standard here. Most insurance companies do follow Medicare guidelines, so that list is pretty much standard. Sounds like you are getting the run-arou...

@Kira, congrats on being cancer free!! Many prayers with you on that journey!! We have 2 major hospitals in my town, and 2 sleep clinics. We have always had a sleep specialist at each sleep clinic. We don't take direct referrals for testing from anyone. Patients are referred to us, and our sleep spe...

You didn't see a sleep specialist? I've worked at my lab going on 7 years now, and our sleep doc is a Board Certified Sleep Physician, as well as a Neurologist. 2 years ago, he "retired" from Neurology so that he could devote all of his work time to his sleep patients We are very thorough in our fol...

Just curious for those of you who are not following up with your sleep doctors, do you have Medicare? Medicare guidelines have changed, and inorder to keep your machine, you have to follow up with your sleep doc within 90 days of receiving your machine. I'm glad they did this. I've heard too many st...

There's no stage 4 sleep anymore! Sorry, just a pet peeve that techs still use that! I disagree with this tech tho! I have alot of patients that still enter stage 3 and rem sleep, even with sleep apnea! Maybe the water is just different at that lab! Ha! Realistically, we only need 2 hours of you sle...

There are in home studies. Many DME companies will provide you (free of charge) an over night pulse ox test. You wear it at home, and it just goes over your finger to monitor blood oxygen desaturations, often caused by sleep apnea. We have alot of patients that use Apnea link. That is sort of a scre...

Hi Guys & Girls! First, allow me to introduce myself! I'm Amanda, I'm a RPSGT, have been in sleep for almost 7 years now. I work at a hospital based sleep lab..Now, let me pry you for some info!! What are your thoughts on the ProBasic FF mask? I almost always use a Resmed Quattro FX on patients who ...