Advanced Methods Increase Medicare CPAP Compliance to 88.5%

Current Medicare policy regarding CPAP adherence requires patients to meet a minimum level of machine usage within a fixed 90-day trial period. Many commercial payers are adopting similar standards. These rigid standards include a minimum threshold of therapy hours per night over a contiguous time period.

If the patient does not meet these requirements, Medicare (or the commercial payer) will deny coverage for ongoing CPAP therapy. The patient with their doctor must seek other solutions as defined by Medicare. Using traditional “DME” protocols without a concerted intervention strategy, a significant percentage of patients will not meet these strict adherence requirements and potentially lose access to therapy.

The industry reports that as many as 50% of patients on sleep therapy fail. National Sleep Therapy has developed proprietary systems and processes to substantially raise the success rate of
sleep therapy for Medicare patients through the initial trial period and beyond.

When patients are engaged in their therapy through timely and relevant intervention strategies, their compliance scores increase. Combining the use of new machine and data technologies as well as advanced educational principles and an integrated touchpoint model, National Sleep Therapy Medicare therapy retention rates far exceed industry-recognized values and are objectively reported in a sample size of 626 patients to be 88.5%.

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