medicare compliance with bilevel question

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medicare compliance with bilevel question

Post by SleepingUgly » Wed Dec 28, 2011 8:38 pm

If someone meets medicare compliance for a CPAP and then are switched to bilevel after the 3 months compliance on CPAP, do they have to do another 3 months of compliance on bilevel?

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Re: medicare compliance with bilevel question

Post by Guest » Wed Dec 28, 2011 9:39 pm

SleepingUgly wrote:If someone meets medicare compliance for a CPAP and then are switched to bilevel after the 3 months compliance on CPAP, do they have to do another 3 months of compliance on bilevel?
How long have you been on bilevel? Have you been compliant during that time? Are you worried about your ability to meet compliance again?
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Re: medicare compliance with bilevel question

Post by SleepingUgly » Wed Dec 28, 2011 9:45 pm

Guest wrote:
SleepingUgly wrote:If someone meets medicare compliance for a CPAP and then are switched to bilevel after the 3 months compliance on CPAP, do they have to do another 3 months of compliance on bilevel?
How long have you been on bilevel? Have you been compliant during that time? Are you worried about your ability to meet compliance again?
No, it's not for me.

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Re: medicare compliance with bilevel question

Post by Komodo » Thu Dec 29, 2011 7:31 am

SleepingUgly wrote:If someone meets medicare compliance for a CPAP and then are switched to bilevel after the 3 months compliance on CPAP, do they have to do another 3 months of compliance on bilevel?
As far as I know, yes.
Don't know about THREE months compliance.........I only had to show ONE months when I switched to bilevel 2 years ago.

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Re: medicare compliance with bilevel question

Post by archangle » Thu Dec 29, 2011 3:02 pm

Komodo wrote:Don't know about THREE months compliance.........I only had to show ONE
months when I switched to bilevel 2 years ago.
I seem to recall reading about needing one month worth of data, but you could do this any time up to three months after starting.

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