Poll: Sleep Study Location

[sleepydude]

Now that Medicare and some insurers are covering home sleep testing, I'm wondering how many people are actually being tested at home.

Thanks for your participation!

[Slinky]

Not to discourage you, but this poll is really way premature. Approval of the at-home sleep studies is much too recent for the poll to have any significance.

[Velbor]

What might be more interesting is:

Is the sleep lab where I was tested:
-1- A hospital based practice; my sleep doctor is a staff member of the sleep lab
-2- A hospital based practice; my sleep doctor is affiliated with the hospital but is not on the sleep lab staff
-3- A hospital based practice; my sleep doctor is not directly affiliated with the hospital
-4- A for-profit commercial enterprise in which my sleep doctor has a direct financial interest (owner or partner)
-5- A for-profit commercial enterprise in which my sleep doctor has NO known direct financial interest

Are there any other standard options that need to be offered (particularly outside the US)?

My earliest sleep studies, over ten years ago, would have been (5); more recently they are (1).

[echo]

Velbor - as far as I know in most/some European countries, it's mostly (1). I haven't heard of any other models. And DME's don't exist. You get everything from the hospital. Including bad service: like when I asked for a FFM due to congestion and mouth breathing, they said "turn your pressure down, that's why you're mouth breathing" or "it's OK if you don't use CPAP for a few days when you have a cold because the effects of CPAP last for a few days." (isn't that bordering on malpractice?!). Actually CPAP suppliers exist but they go directly through the hospital, for the most part.

[Bearded_One]

Mine was part of a chain of McSleep clinics, the doctor who signed my CPAP prescription probably never even saw the inside of the sleep clinic, and I never saw or talked to him. I don't know if the doctor had a financial interest in the company or not -- he may have been a part time employee.

[tomjax]

What possible value to anyone is this poll?

[DreamDiver]

What possible value to anyone is this poll?

It looks like the main question was whether or not anyone on the forum had been sleep-tested at home. Apparently so far nodoby.

It means that medicare's program for allowing -in-home-testing of OSA is either ill-conceived, ill-advertised or ill-prepared to actually carry out a program such as this and calls into question the very capabilities of the people who were likely installed at the top of this governmental organization by the US federal administration. Perhaps they are of the same level of capability as the previous head of FEMA.

[jnk]

. . . program for allowing -in-home-testing . . .

Well, some kind of in-home sleep study program had better get going or the waiting list at sleep clinics is gonna be about 3-yrs long, once the other 80% (the not-yet-diagnosed) are told, or figure out, that they need to be tested and titrated.

jnk

[chunkyfrog]

This thread is long overdue to be locked. 2008-2016
REALLY, people!

[joe26]

Hi,

I started using cpap 4 Year ago. I recently did another sleep study in hospital and I had 91/per hour.