First, thank you! We know you’re working hard to help your patients! We also know you’re working hard to keep yourself, your family, your team, and your patients safe. We appreciate you. As we were navigating this new world, we came to the conclusion that we needed to adjust our protocols while keeping our [...]
It seems like Medicare is always changing its rules, and these rules never seem to make things easier for us, they just make more hoops for us to jump through. And now this new change could keep many obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) patients who have difficulty with CPAP from getting oral [...]
Sometimes we hear concerns from providers that oral appliances cost too much – either a perception of their own or one they hear from their patients. In our office, the average out-ofw-pocket cost of treatment so far in 2018 is $972. As a medical provider, everything we do goes through medical insurance, so everybody’s cost [...]
We know that although CPAP is a more effective sleep apnea treatment, oral appliances are just as successful at helping people improve their symptoms. Now a new meta-analysis has reinforced this conclusion. Although CPAP is better in some ways for sleep apnea, the poor compliance means that when it comes to practical measures, the two [...]
It’s common in this country to look to drugs to treat our problems. This is as much a failing among patients as doctors, although it’s often put on doctors. Ideally, all parties should agree that when drugs aren’t working, a different treatment should be attempted. One area where drugs often fail is in the [...]
