Medicare Announces Proposed Policy For Continuous Positive Airway Pressure (CPAP) Therapy For Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA), USA

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has proposed to extend Medicare coverage for continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) devices to include beneficiaries who have been diagnosed with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) as a result of a Type II, III, or IV home sleep test (HST).

OSA is a condition in which periods of temporary suspension in breathing (apnea) occur during sleep. In most instances, OSA is diagnosed by counting the number of sleep disturbances that occur during a specific time interval. Up to 4 million Medicare beneficiaries suffer from OSA.

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The problem of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) occurs due to the temporary suspension in breathing during the sleep time. This obstructive sleep apnea cannot be found out easily and mostly it will be diagnosed by making note of number of sleep disturbances that occur in the particular time interval.

Once you get this problem, it requires more time to get away from it. There is no particular medicine or treatment for this problem. Even though your doctor suggests certain treatment for curing this problem, it requires more time and sometimes it even costs more.

According to the latest research, it has been found that continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) therapy works great for solving the problem of sleep apnea. In this therapy, the continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) devices are used and through these devices the air pressure will pass through the face mask and makes you to attain good breathe when you are sleeping.

This CPAP therapy definitely gives relief for the people who are severely suffering with the problem of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA). This treatment of CPAP should be carried out for twelve weeks and if better results are obtained in those twelve weeks, the efficiency of the treatment will be decreased day by day, until you feel that you don’t have any difficulty in breathing during your sleeping time.