Home Sleep Studies by Internet Supplier

[roster]

Here's an interesting solution to the whole prescription issue.. http://www.cpapprescription.com I read through their website, and I believe they will basically sell you a prescription for an xpap machine for $71.50. No office visit required.. Just fill in an online form.. If you want, for an extra fee, they'll talk to you, but it's not required.

Wonderful! Thanks for pointing that out.

Home studies done without having to visit a doctor is an excellent idea.

Here is is what they say about their mission:

We founded CPAPprescription.com on the simple concept of providing patients of Sleep Disorder Breathing an option for continuing their treatment without the hassle of making an appointment with the doctor and taking time off work in order to get a simple CPAP Prescription for a CPAP Mask or a replacement CPAP Machine.

When forming the online telemedicine option we learned that patients could also have a physician even process a CPAP Prescription for an at-home sleep study to efficiently diagnosis and recommend a treatment plan.

Check out their great prices. A never-diagnosed patient can spend $309.75 maximum and get a home sleep study, a consultation with a sleep doctor, a plan of treatmend and a prescription.

The market is progressing with low-cost alternatives. However, I guess our new health care bill will kill this type of innovation.

[pzac]

The market is progressing with low-cost alternatives. However, I guess our new health care bill will kill this type of innovation.

Now why would you say that our new health care bill would kill this type of innovation?
As a professional that has been in the health insurance business for over 25 years to me that statement does not even make sense!
I don't know if your comment was made in jest but I really feel really about how americans are being totally misinformed and misled with bad information, sometimes out right lies about the new health care bill.
I do not mean to be preachy here but many absurd comments, ignorant statements and lies have been made about the new health care bill that people just don't know what to think.
This type of service had nothing to do with health insurance because I do not believe that most people's insurance now or in the future would be paying for this on-line service - would yours?
This service is more for people who do not have insurance or their insurance company will not cover them for a sleep study etc. and maybe they can't even afford to even see a doctor in person - have you priced that without insurance?
Even with the new health bill there will still be the poor, the uninsured, the under-insured and the unscrupulous insurance companies who will not always pay for what is necessary for a person's health.
The new health care bill is not going to shut down a service like this, it's not about a service like this it's more about trying to get more human beings insured.
Also as a professional in the health insurance business for over 25 years I am glad that some change is being made even though it is not enough change to solve all the problems but one has to start somewhere.
I do not want to get into a health care debate here but take my word for it - most health insurance companies now days do not really care about your health or well being - it is just about making enormous profits.
There is not much good to say about a society that preys on it's poor, weak, disabled, sick and dying, trying to suck as much money out of them while they are still alive especially in the world's most wealthy country!

P.S. Back to the topic about CPAPprescripton.com - I think this new service is going to be a life saver for some people with sleep disorders, I am glad it is available.

[robmax]

. . .americans are being totally misinformed and misled with bad information, sometimes out right lies about the new health care bill.

Be honest: there are some "totally" misleading out left lies too . . .

[harry33]

sounds good to me, the CPAP professionals are against home studies but probably they fear for their jobs longterm

it seems the advances in CPAP design may soon make sleep labs and their staff obsolete, perhaps there will soon be an advanced CPAP with a diagnostic mode.....

using an oxygen level meter as a diagnostic aid is doubtful as I think some apnea sufferers dont get low oxygen

[roster]

I do not want to get into a health care debate here but take my word for it.

Of course you don't want to debate about it. You just want to call people liars and have everybody believe what you say. Makes life simpler for you.

[montana]

I think online is where it will all be someday. I welcome it. ......... and health care reform

[pzac]

I think online is where it will all be someday. I welcome it. ......... and health care reform

As they say across the pond, Hear - Hear -

[montana]

I think online is where it will all be someday. I welcome it. ......... and health care reform

As they say across the pond, Hear - Hear -

I covet your new S9

[pzac]

Of course you don't want to debate about it. You just want to call people liars and have everybody believe what you say. Makes life simpler for you.

First of all I hope you did not think that was I calling you a liar or saying that you were misleading. It was just an honest statement of concern about the things sometimes we all say that might be misleading. My other comments were on how bad things are getting with people who purposely mislead, even lie. None of these comments were about you in particular but about all of us who speak in these public forums. My statements were never met to be a debate or about US verses THEM as this forum should be about discussing x-pap, people asking x-pap questions and people that might have an answer to give them. So in retrospect if you or anyone else whom has read my comments has been offended in anyway then I do sincerely apologize as that was never intended. I am just concerned that one hears and sees a lot of misleading information, most of it is said because it was heard from someone else and passed along, some of it is said as a joke, some it said as honesty as one believes and some of it intentionally misleading and that we have to be careful and check our facts first before making statements because many many people read what we write and they could get confused and misunderstand and be misled, etc. That's all. And as far as liars are concerned - they are everywhere and in every persuasion and in every political camp.
You do not have to believe what I say nor should you. In this new age of liars, each one of us has the responsibility to go deep into the real facts on our own. This requires a lot of time and a lot of research and resources and that most people do not have the resolve to spend so much of themselves to get the truth. You cannot just go by what you read and or see in the news or media. You cannot go by want you might hear on a bus, train or plane or for that matter what you see in Facebook or the blogs and forums. You have to do a lot fact finding, a lot reading on your own. Unfortunately you can not just use the internet as a tool to get this information because again - how do you know what to believe - the internet is just mostly information created by people like you and me with opinions and not what might or might not be actual facts. You may actually have to read hundreds of documents and thousands of pages in books, statements, etc. about the topic that you are researching. You have to ask many many questions from unbiased experts and speak to many resources. None of this is easy and is difficult to say the least trying to understand something completely. Nothing we see or hear now days is simply black or white so we have got try to keep the facts as straight as we can.
Anyway I did not mean to be so winded I just didn't want people to think that I was some kind of bad guy here. Oh one more thing, my life is really not at all simple.

[Jersey Girl]

Dear Rooster,

Thanks so much for posting this information. I am trying to go the "traditional" route by getting referrals, etc. for my loudly snoring husband to go to his titration study and hopefully, it will all work out and he will get a prescription for cpap, but just in case, it's good to know that there is another route we can take if all else fails.

Best regards,

Jersey Girl

[roster]

Dear Rooster,

Thanks so much for posting this information. I am trying to go the "traditional" route by getting referrals, etc. for my loudly snoring husband to go to his titration study and hopefully, it will all work out and he will get a prescription for cpap, but just in case, it's good to know that there is another route we can take if all else fails.

Best regards,

Jersey Girl

My wife and I were at a concert tonight and, surprise, an old friend and his wife sat beside us. He had told me some time ago that he suspects sleep apnea but doesn't like the idea of spending a couple of nights in a lab. His wife said it seems to be getting worse and that he doesn't want to spend the money so keeps delaying.

I told him he can get the home study, a treatment plan, a phone consultation, and a CPAP prescription for $310. He is interested and I am emailing him the link. Let's see if he goes for it and what the experience is like.

Thanks to p2pjunkie for pointing us to this.

BTW, I was at an event earlier this afternoon with a poet and the president of his publisher. There were only four of us in the room and they started out talking about how hardcopy books would never disappear and that people who read poetry will always want to have it in book form. Of course I told them that they would wake up some morning soon and find out that no one was printing books or newspapers. The price of Kindles and even more advanced and easier to use and read devices would come down and would become as prolific as cellphones. They took great offence at this and the publisher said there will always be books because "I have the equipment and will print them". I started to ask them about audio cassettes and CDs but decided to behave.

I think it will be the same with sleep labs. If government will stay out of the way, innovative people will figure out how to do sleep studies and titrations cheaply and effectively. It will happen so fast, the sleep labs will not even know what hit them. The ones who are operating out of hotels with year-to-year contracts will be very happy they do not have investments in brick and mortar.

[roster]

So in retrospect if you or anyone else whom has read my comments has been offended in anyway then I do sincerely apologize as that was never intended.

I never get offended except when people apologize to me. But I forgive you for apologizing this first time.

[roster]

Now why would you say that our new health care bill would kill this type of innovation?

Gary Mirkin, MD - Mar 27, 2010
We're quickly becoming a 3rd world country with a 3rd world style autocrat in charge, 3rd world level debt, a rapidly declining currency and a "right" to universal health care. What good that "right" will do you when you can't find a good doctor or hospital, not to mention a job, is beyond me. I guess you can wrap yourself in that 2,000 page "right" to keep yourself warm if you get the chills.

Federal debt; federal interest payments; unfunded entitlements like Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid; housing market which will be severely devalued; debacle of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac; FHA next to fail; unfunded wars; monetization of the debt; growth of governments at all levels; insolvent states; unemployment insurance crisis; disastrous government school system. (Oh yes, add a health care law with new high taxes, huge government bureaucracy and central planning of 17% of the economy.)

Do the math, there is no way to tax us out of this problem. The only thing that could save us would be a younger generation not standing for it, innovating, deregulating and building a very robust economy to get us out of this mess. Republicans and Democrats will not do it. The Tea Party will not do it. We need a new political movement driven by a young generation.

[bart.willems]

politics comes from:
poly = many
ticks = bloodsucking creatures

'nuff said. Can we go back to cpaptalk now?