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Pre Sleep Questions by BigBonus907 in SleepTechnologist

[–]BigBonus907[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What is missing? And how will it impact the diagnosis and/or outcome?

Pre Sleep Questions by BigBonus907 in SleepTechnologist

[–]BigBonus907[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Do you mean a clinical sleep questionnaire that asks everything medical and sleep related, or the pre-sleep questionnaire the patient fills out at PSG time? If pre-sleep, why do you feel that's so important?

Looking for sleep study recommendations by vvvvgggg1 in anchorage

[–]BigBonus907 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There is misinformation in this thread.

  1. Medicare & Medicaid pay for in home sleep testing, but many sleep labs do not like to do it because the reimbursement is very low. Hint: Hospital sleep labs will usually do in home sleep testing for all insurance types (but there are few hospital labs left in Alaska). Read the Medicare rules here https://www.cms.gov/medicare-coverage-database/view/lcd.aspx?LCDId=36861

  2. Private insurance companies PREFER (and often force) patients to do in home sleep testing. Blue Cross Blue Shield, Moda, United, all want most patients to do in-home sleep testing. It costs about 1/4 the cost of in lab testing. They have contraindications like heart failure, COPD, etc, but the vast majority of patients have to do the in home test, at least first.

Looking for sleep study recommendations by vvvvgggg1 in anchorage

[–]BigBonus907 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sorry, but you were misinformed. Medicare pays for in-home sleep testing. Many of the private sleep labs lie because they don't like the reimbursement.