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Effect of the new Medicare guideline on patient qualification for positive airway pressure therapy.
Effect of the new Medicare guideline on patient qualification for positive airway pressure therapy. Sleep medicine Raj, R., Hirshkowitz, M. 2003; 4 (1): 29-33Abstract
New Medicare criteria for prescribing continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) recognize hypopnea as a sleep disordered breathing event. In so doing, hypopnea was redefined as requiring a 4% oxygen desaturation. The criteria omit electroencephalogram (EEG) arousals from the definition. This study was designed to assess how the new Medicare guideline changes CPAP eligibility.Polysomnograms from 113 consecutive patients with obstructive sleep apnea were scored using both a definition for hypopnea that considered EEG arousals and the new Medicare definition that does not consider EEG arousal. CPAP eligibility was evaluated and compared.Sixteen percent of all patients and 41% of patients apnea+hypopnea index
View details for DOI 10.1016/s1389-9457(02)00150-8
View details for PubMedID 14592357