Insurers sound off to NPR against moneymaking sleep centers
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Sleep docs don't come off looking so hot in this recent NPR story, which paints some of them as opportunistic plunderers of the nation's health care dollars, over-ordering expensive sleep studies to make a buck. As reporter Jenny Gold points out, the number of sleep studies performed in the U.S. has quadrupled over the past 10 years, with Medicare payments also quadrupling from $62 million spent on polysomnograms in 2001 to $235 million in 2009. A night in a sleep lab costs ~$1,900, and most patients spend two nights (one for diagnosis, one for CPAP titration).
Insurers sound off to NPR against moneymaking sleep centers
Insurers sound off to NPR against moneymaking…
Insurers sound off to NPR against moneymaking sleep centers
Sleep docs don't come off looking so hot in this recent NPR story, which paints some of them as opportunistic plunderers of the nation's health care dollars, over-ordering expensive sleep studies to make a buck. As reporter Jenny Gold points out, the number of sleep studies performed in the U.S. has quadrupled over the past 10 years, with Medicare payments also quadrupling from $62 million spent on polysomnograms in 2001 to $235 million in 2009. A night in a sleep lab costs ~$1,900, and most patients spend two nights (one for diagnosis, one for CPAP titration).