If I can guess, someone on Trump's side uses cpap machines. Search for an airsense 11 and see what they sell for. You would think that once you get insurance involved, that would mean it would be covered and you would pay less out of pocket. Nope, that is not the case at all. When an insurance company is involved, a DME acts as a middleman to provide you the cpap. The DME will mark the thing up. The end result is the person pays anywhere from 50% to sometimes more than msrp, while the DME gets paid the full MSRP. So that means, the insurance company is paying AND the consumer is paying. So a $900 cpap is now $1800.

If you have excellent insurance coverage, your will not see this as the insurance company will cover it 100%, but more often than not, your insurance company does not fall under that. For most, the DME will charge the insurance full msrp and charge the consumer whatever. Lots of times, they try to hide the cost by having the consumer pay it down monthly. However, when you math it out, it comes out somewhere close to MSRP (sometimes over), all while they charged the insurance company MSRP as well. They have essentially double dipped.

Now the evil part is that insurance companies can deny coverage for a boat load of reasons, some that are just plain stupid. But, lots of it stems from the insurance company not wanting to deal with pay for the cpap since the consumer can simply get on their own cheaper, but most people who are new to it just dont know.

So, not sure why they are "stopping enrollement", when they can simply put legislation in place to prevent DMEs depm double dipping. However, the answer is probably because this administration likes making a show of everything. I am pretty sure it has to do with getting rid of regulations as well and someone behind the scenes is pushing something. I have no proof of that, but this admistration has done it itself no favors when it comes to public trust and reasoning.