Tag: compliance requirements
CPAP therapy has become less efficient
April 8, 2022Theresa Flaherty, Managing Editor
YARMOUTH, Maine – With HME providers struggling to obtain CPAP devices, payers should consider suspending compliance requirements, they argue.
Current Medicare guidelines call for patients to use their CPAP machines for at least four hours per night at least 70% of the time within any given time frame.
“It’d be great if they did, but I don’t have much hope any payer is going to,” said Woody O’Neal, vice president of Pelham, Ala.-based O2 Neal...
