update....clinic called. said study showed no sleep apnea......but oxygen levels still go down...my instructions were to loose some weight.

two studys show my levels go down......so just don't know what to do.

Well I taked to my insurance company, and their allowable for a cpap machine was $1250.....and that is what an area provider said......and I pay 20% of that
allowance and they pay the 80%....same with the supplies........and the $1250 the local provider is paid for a cpap machine.

thought I would give an update. The dr thought I needed to do a sleep study. Went around with insurance co....bcbs said home study was considered "experimental"...and therefore not pay....well after the sleep center and the clinic talked to them, they (bcbs) agreed to a home sleep study, but in resu...

had to jump thru some hops to find things out. seems most people just do it, and pay no attention to the cost. Here is what the insurance company said: split night sleep study $640 Dr to read study $130 Auto cpap $1250 Humidty unit $350 I estimate the hose, and mask, and etc at about $150 since I've...

thank you for the reply. Main thing right now is the reason for not much energy, and terrible night sweats. Just about every night for a number of years now, I get up and I am soaking wet. I finally have got tired of this and am pushing it with my doctor...so looking at the possibilities. we do not ...

had an overnight pulse oximetry test done. I only got about 5 to 5 1/2 hours sleep last night, due to having an MRI early in the morning. my question, am I going to get a cpap/bipap unit. here is the data I got: 4% oxygen desaturation index (odi) 4.75 per hour total events 31 average duriation 48 se...

sleep report did not show sleep apena, but only o2 levels drop....so no cpap equipment. She is on medicare, so you must go by their rules. They will not accept your numbers, it must be done by a certified agency and read by a disinterested third party, and then the doctor reads their report, and iss...

sorry but we are not going to drag a almost 40# bag around, and has four little wheels on them. The contract states they need to provide o2 when and where needed. Research I have done, shows the unit we would be using, I can order for $639....they charge in excess of $200 per month, for 36 months, a...

will need to get to the town a couple of days before for radiology and labs, not in hospital, then they would rather have us stay in town a couple of days when
she is released, since we are over 300 miles away.

hello. This is a follow up to "sp02 82%" We had the home sleep sp02 test light night. The company downloads the data to IDS, and in less than an hour they have their "interpitation", that the dr uses to justify his rx to medicare. While we find out my mom did not get as low as 82% like last time, th...

After jumping thru some hoops, got the "raw" sleep data......tell me if I should be pushing to get thngs done: ahi 3.0 odi 2.5 snore index 2.8% apena/yupopnea index 3hr apena index 1.3/hr hypopnea index 1.7/hr snore index 2.8% flow limitation index 8.8% longest apena 21s longest hypopnea 88s total a...

Did more checking today. Clinic has data, doc needs to look over to order spo2 test, but he's going to be gone for a while !!!!! So I callled around. These supply places are nuts. I've picked out three units that i would consider. I priced them locally then on the internet......Locally, double or t...

john. Rather interesting suggestion. As background. Due to some edema, and a need to get into some shape for some possible surgery, it was decided to get in the best shape we can. One thought was CHF. So an ECHO was done, it revealed the ejection fraction was good (in the 60's) but noted the left at...

i stand corrected. the spo2 is the "indirect" measurement, most commonly found by our little finger units.

thank you, pale rider

Another update. The RT department and the DME supplier called. The talked to medicare, and medicare can not accept the sao2 data from a sleep study to justify supplemental oxygen durning sleep. So, the next step is to do an overnight sao2 study. Equipment is ready, just need to have the dr write an ...