How do you get your hose to dry when washed?

LSAT wrote:Willie.......I'm courious. If you are concerned about the amount your DME is charging Medicare, why are you allowing your DME to send these hoses that you don't need??? TELL THEM TO STOP!!!!! YOU ARE THE CUSTOMER!!!!! My DME asked me if I wanted to 'sign up' for automatic shipments. I said NO.

Willie's Quote..."I've got a collection of brand new hoses all nicely sealed up in their factory bags, never opened. Wish I could sell them for what the DME charges Medicare for them. Crooked DME'S send everything the reg's allow every time I order a mask cushion. They should be charged with fraud. "

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I told 'em and told 'em and told 'em that I only wanted a cushion.
Time after time I got the whole setup.
Finally I ordered a cushion and got just a cushion.
Then the DME got bought out by a bigger outfit and now they are back to the same old thing.
Order a cushion and get the frame, cushion, hose, headgear .... everything they can possibly charge.

I'm surprised you have not fired that DME...There should be pleanty others in your area. Most take Medicare.
Check under Respatory in the phone book.

Here's a link to a discussion we had about that a while back:

viewtopic.php?f=1&t=46731&p=419957&hili ... ee#p419957

tattooyu wrote:You know what I do? I spin the tube gently, a la Mick Dundee in Crocodile Dundee II when he was making his aboriginal "phone call" using a bullroarer. That way, the centripetal force pulls the water to the outside of the tube. Seems to work pretty well.

I should also add that it makes the droplets that are still in the hose smaller, which helps the drying time (more surface area?).

ResMed machines have a cool-down feature that runs the blower at a much lower level than treatment for an hour after shutting off the blower. After washing my hose, I hook it to the machine and start it for just a few seconds and then shut it off again... this is enough to start the cool-down process and this seems to dry the hose pretty well.

I wash it at around 9 AM on Saturday or Sunday, then hang it over the staircase until bedtime, which is usually around 10 PM. Then I turn the machine on and let it blow out the hose a bit before hooking the mask up.

Duct tape it to a ceiling fan and spin it dry

We are supposed to wash the hose? LOL! Just kidding!! What is making it "dirty"? I never wash mine anymore--hoses ae so cheap and the insurance covers them every 6 months so I toss mine and wash the new one befor first use and then that is it.

I am in the "don't wash"- I got a new hose every three months, and changed it out then..then realized I could ask to not receive one so often, but still will just change it out with a new one. I keep an extra.
~joan