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WatchPAT™ Spearheads Breakthrough of At-Home Testing For Sufferers Of Sleep Apnea
• In October 2010, the American Medical Association to announce a new CPT
(Current Procedural Terminology) code for at-home testing of obstructive sleep
apnea (OSA), which will go into effect January 1, 2011.
• Home testing and diagnosing of OSA will now become uniformly reimbursable for all physicians.
• Home testing with the WatchPAT (wrist-worn device and finger-mounted probe) delivers diagnostic accuracy at a fraction of the cost of sleep lab
testing, significantly lowering the cost of health care.
• Outpatient testing for sleep-related breathing disorders using a wrist-worn device and finger-mounted probe was selected as one of the Top 10 Medical
Innovations for 2010 by a panel of experts at the world-renowned Cleveland
Clinic.
“With the new CPT code going into effect, millions of Americans suffering from sleep apnea can now benefit from easy, low cost access to in-home sleep testing ...."
Full article: http://www.newswise.com/articles/watchpat-spearheads-breakthrough-o...
Home testing will accelerate rapidly in 2011.
(Current Procedural Terminology) code for at-home testing of obstructive sleep
apnea (OSA), which will go into effect January 1, 2011.
• Home testing and diagnosing of OSA will now become uniformly reimbursable for all physicians.
• Home testing with the WatchPAT (wrist-worn device and finger-mounted probe) delivers diagnostic accuracy at a fraction of the cost of sleep lab
testing, significantly lowering the cost of health care.
• Outpatient testing for sleep-related breathing disorders using a wrist-worn device and finger-mounted probe was selected as one of the Top 10 Medical
Innovations for 2010 by a panel of experts at the world-renowned Cleveland
Clinic.
“With the new CPT code going into effect, millions of Americans suffering from sleep apnea can now benefit from easy, low cost access to in-home sleep testing ...."
Full article: http://www.newswise.com/articles/watchpat-spearheads-breakthrough-o...
Home testing will accelerate rapidly in 2011.
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Permalink Reply by RockRpsgt on
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It is just an oximeter probe. Doctors could already be reimbursed for this procedure. This device can not tell the difference between an OSA and hypoxemia.
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Permalink Reply by Rooster on
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Just an oximeter probe? Sure fooled me. :)
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“Patients with undiagnosed sleep apnea have a higher complication rate, longer recovery, and poorer pain control,” said Dr. Marvin Tark, head of the Pain Management Section and former Chairman of Anesthesia at Wellstar Kennestone Hospital, Marietta, Georgia. “WatchPAT provides the information we need to monitor and manage the patient better in both the surgical and the post-operative period, offering the best possible high-quality medical care. By using WatchPAT as part of our standard pre-operative procedure, we are able to reduce peri-operative complications, save time and money by minimizing time spent in the recovery room, and more safely determine the course of pain management, Having reviewed the medical evidence behind WatchPAT, I now recommend it as the sleep test method of choice for all of our surgical patients.”
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WatchPAT is the most scientifically investigated and tested ambulatory device for Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA). It offers physicians the ability to fully analyze the 6 channels of tamper-proof raw sleep-related data and manually override the suggested automatic analysis in a manner similar to standard PSG recordings.
Full article: http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20101012005265/en/WatchPAT%E2...
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WatchPAT™ is being used more and more. This will allow many more patients to be diagnosed quickly, easily and inexpensively and without the hassle of dealing with a sleep lab.
See press release: http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20101116005180/en/SleepQuest-...
SleepQuest Purchases Additional WatchPAT™ Devices for Home Sleep Diagnostics as Continuation of National Rollout
SleepQuest, a national provider of comprehensive sleep apnea services, announced today that it has purchased additional units of Itamar-Medical’s WatchPAT as it extends its sleep testing and diagnosis program across the US. ....
WatchPAT is the most convenient, portable sleep testing device on the market today easily installed by the patient in the comfort of their own home. With thousands of WatchPAT systems in use at the world’s prominent clinical institutions diagnosing sleep apnea, including Veteran Hospitals (VA), Kaiser Permanente, and Aleris FysiologLab (Sweden), WatchPAT is the ambulatory sleep testing unit of choice for convenient and accurate diagnosis.
Diagnosing patients in their own bed at home is more convenient to the patient and more accurately reflects the patient’s actual sleep environment.
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jnk, I know you are smarter than that and am only puzzled by why you are fighting it.
You have about 85% of the sufferer population walking around (many of them lying around) undiagnosed. If everyone of them could use a WatchPat tonight, you would get at least 75% of the undiagnosed over to the diagnosed category.
The great majority of them fit my case. I spent a night ($2700) in a certified sleep lab to be told I have obstructive sleep apnea. This is a diagnosis I can make for people right now in 5 minutes by asking them a few questions and looking at their jaws, teeth and tongue. I won't even charge 27 cents for that.
That was a huge waste of my time and money to sleep in that lab the first night. It was a waste of human resources - the sleep techs, the sleep doc, the receptionist, the medical records person. If the doc had any know-how and gumption he would have sent me straight to titration.
So the docs don't have any gumption and now there is WatchPat to substitute for lack of gumption.
Most people could sleep with it for an hour and get a legitimate positive diagnosis.
BTW, my second night (titration) in the lab was also a big waste of my time, my money, and human resources and society's capital. The prescription they gave me was so far off. I could have skipped the titration night if they had prescribed a data-capable machine and software and said, "Set this machine at 10 cm and then take a couple of weeks reviewing your data and tweaking as necessary until you get rid of mask leaks and breathing events."
WatchPat (or successors) will get bigger and bigger and a lot of people will benefit. As time goes on I will remind you how you did not believe it and I will say often, "I told you so". LMAO.
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Your missing the point Rooster. I also notice that you use quite a few I's and me's in your statements. Your apnea criteria fits all the requirements for the HST. Anywhere from 25-50% of the population has more than one sleep disorder. When you add the amount of people that have multiple modalities the number of poeple that have to have the PSG in addition will rise.
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Permalink Reply by Banyon on
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Rock Hinkle said:Anywhere from 25-50% of the population has more than one sleep disorder.
Did you just make that up? Tell us about the additional sleep disorders that 25-50% of the population have that are only going to be discovered in an in-lab PSG. (Or maybe won't be discovered because people won't go to the lab or can't afford the lab.)
What are the most prevalent additional sleep disorders? Tell us the top five and their prevalency rates.
I agree with the others that devices like the WatchPat are going to play a bigger role and that is a very good thing. This is going to be driven by patients and doctors who are "catching on", not by .... (I'll hold that for another day).
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Permalink Reply by Mary Z on
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What is going on here? What happened to respect for another person's opinions. I for one am sick of all the one upmanship and bickering. Each one of you trying to prove you're right. Every now and then a word of wisdom seeps through, but what I see and read is mostly intolerance that has no place on this forum.
Mary Z.
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There is no respect at SG anymore Mary. Everyone here has an agenda. Getting that agenda passed is what SG has become. Banyon I have already posted the studies that prove the statistics that I wrote about. I have nothing to prove to you or anyone else here. I am done arguing over these points with one sided bullies. Neither you nor rooster have any interest but your own at heart. I am sorry for what the sleep industry have done to both of you. if you not angry hateful old men that could not see another side before you surely are now.
I have to move my family across country now. I don't have time for this anymore. SG has become a place of aggrivation that I can not shake. If all of you wnat to listen and support this BS that is fine by me. This is not what is best for bad sleepers. this is what is best for insurance companies. I will not be a part of it!
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This is not a challenge anymore jnk. This is a lynching. The only opinion here is down with sleep. This site has become a sleep industry bashing site. I have been called un-educated, poorly informed, and recently by banyon illiterate. Everything I say is challenged. My post have been attacked in the form of PMs. I was recently warned to stop spreading lies about the insurance companies by one of the posters in this discussion(lobbyist). Without the support of the sleep community nothing discussed here will get done. I am done arguing. Good luck jnk this is your crowd now.
For those of you that would still like to talk I will leave my account open for PMs. this however will be my last post on the SG open forum for some time.
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Permalink Reply by mollete on
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"IMHO", you got two major fallacies here:
This isn't a forum, it's a blog. You got 6 guys posting here, and 4 of 'em are selling something.
Patients CANNOT treat themselves effectively. Those 2 guys keep saying "Look at me! I can do it!"
How much time have they spent educating themselves? 5000 hours?
Hey, Skinner, how much crap gave you bought? Are you really any better?
You think those 25 million are going to do all that?
Along with additional time if they're co-morbid?
GFL.
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