Testing

Facility Sleep Testing

  • Does the patient really have OSA
  • Facility incurring the monthly rental for a CPAP that isn’t really needed
  • Co-morbid conditions associated with OSA, HTN, DM, CHF, and CVA
  • Pharmaceutical costs for medications
  • Has the patient ever has a sleep study to support the use of CPAP
  • Frequent hospital readmissions, bed holding
  • You need a sleep study to discharge the patient home with CPAP – the cycle continues
  • Building a partnership with hospitals to curve readmissions and reimbursement
  • Eliminate transport cost and staffing costs for lab studies

Home Sleep Testing

  • Sleep in your own bed
  • No uncomfortable lab beds
  • Don’t have 18 wires hooked to you
  • Not a sterile sleep environment
  • Keep your normal sleep routine
  • Not tech watching you sleep
  • Eliminate first night effect
  • Get into multiple REM events
  • Cost effective
  • Insurance company preferred for OSA
  • Keeping labs for complex sleep disorders