Tag: Overnight oximetry
Nonin launches platform to manage overnight oximetry testing
August 13, 2025HME News Staff
PLYMOUTH, Minn. – Nonin Medical has launched the Nonin Health platform, a cloud-based system to support clinicians, home care providers, independent diagnostic testing organizations (IDTFs), sleep dentists and sleep physicians in managing overnight oximetry testing. The platform also helps them with follow-up care by accelerating the provision of supplemental oxygen for patients with chronic respiratory conditions and facilitating oral sleep appliance titration, the company says. “Many...
Breathe expands platform
December 14, 2021HME News Staff
OVERLAND PARK, Kan. – Breathe, LLC, an independent diagnostic testing facility that specializes in overnight oximetry and capnography testing, has expanded its software platform to support a Ring Oximeter. “Creating new software enhancements is a key focus here at Breathe,” said Amber Yeager, owner. “We had several DME clients express interest in being able to download a reusable ring type oximeter to an IDTF software platform. It just makes sense for us to add this type of...
Think a 32% cut is bad? Try 50%
February 20, 2012Liz Beaulieu, Editor
A series of steep cuts to Medicare reimbursement for overnight oximetry threaten to consolidate the number of vendors that provide that service and, as a result, limit the options of HME providers.
Since 2008, the relative value unit (RVU), which helps determine reimbursement, for CPT code 94762 has dropped from 0.84 to 0.44, about 50%. That means, for example, reimbursement in Alabama has decreased from $23.72 in 2008 to $13.29 in 2012.
“It's not always unhealthy to have cuts force...