Some States Extend HETLIOZ Coverage to Patients With Non-24 Who Are Not Totally Blind
A patient filed a federal lawsuit challenging the unlawfulness of Colorado Medicaid's prior authorization criteria for HETLIOZ coverage.
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Enough to Wreck Their Rest: $10,322 for a Sleep Study
How much should it cost to be monitored at home or in a hospital sleep lab? That’s the question.
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$15M Euro Grant May Propel Iceland Into a Sleep Apnea Research Hub
It will develop machine-learning techniques to better estimate the severity and treatment needs for OSA and related disorders.
Salaries & Compensation
LatestMy Turn: Katherine M. Sharkey: Big Wage Gap Between Male and Female R.I. Doctors
Rhode Island made it onto a Top Five list of more dubious distinction: a national survey of 65,000 physicians showed that Providence-area women physicians have the fourth-largest gender wage gap in the nation, reports the...
Coding
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American Medical Association Releases 2020 CPT Code Set
The American Medical Association (AMA) announced the release of the 2020 Current Procedural...
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You Can No Longer Sign Patients Up for Deferred Interest Medical Credit Cards in California
Effective this July, sleep subspecialists and dental sleep medicine practitioners can no longer give patients pre-filled applications or in any way help patients sign up for CareCredit or similar cards in their offices.
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Why I Opened a Home Sleep Test-Only Private Practice
Vikas Jain, MD, FAASM, finds that HST can lower barriers to entry not only for patients, but for sleep specialists as well.
Grants
LatestResearcher Gets Grant to Study Sleep in Pediatric Cancer Patients
Pediatric cancer patients may soon get a better night’s sleep and experience improved comfort levels, thanks to a new grant-funded project led by a Rutgers University-Camden researcher. Lauren Daniel, an assistant...