Home Sleep Testing

Home testing devices offer a convenient, private way of monitoring sleep, either as an adjunct or alternative to a sleep lab study.

To diagnose sleep apnea, it is necessary to monitor what happens while you are sleeping. In a sleep lab, technicians can evaluate you overnight, but some find this prospect, and its price tag, intimidating.

As SleepMinder monitors sleep without even touching the patient it is part of a general trend towards home sleep testing.

Rather than taking business away from sleep labs, SleepMinder may actually steer clients their way, serving as an impetus for patients to pursue the test or for professionals to recommend it, as sleep studies can often measure additional parameters.

In 2008, the centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) approved certain home sleep diagnostic devices, allowing

doctors to prescribe them.

The change is also important for medical professionals, since in the past, Medicare would not cover the analysis of the study if it was done outside a sleep lab.

Home sleep diagnostic testing brings a great number of sufferers one step closer to treatment. Others find it difficult to find the time for the overnight commitment and use their schedule as an excuse to put off the examination.

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