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Trucking industry reacts to Truck Crash research
ASBA members tent to spend a great deal of time reviewing literature to support clinical and practice management decisions. There is a great deal of peer reviewed information that guides the field of sleep disordered breathing. ASBA Diplomates are very much aware of how rigours of reading and understanding the foundational articles that form the basis for the practice. Bob Stanton Transportation editor for Sleepscholar.com wrote the below article as a rebuttal to an article that appeared in land...Read More
Feds seek input for DOT Sleep Apnea Screening Guidelines
ASBA Members are participating in this effort to establish guidelines for sleep diagnosis and therapy that will provide a standard for DOT and providers of care throughout the United States. There has been an effort over the last several years to establish some federal standards that would give some guidance regarding CPAP use and diagnostic testing procedures for commercial motor vehicle operators and rail crews. The article below was written by Bob Stanton for Sleepscholar. Bob has been very i...Read More
ASBA Members supporting NFLPA 2016 Former Players Conference
I was invited by David Gergen Executive Director of the American Sleep and Breathing Academy (ASBA) to attend the NFLPA 2016 Former Players Convention. I was there to demonstrate the value of home sleep testing in evaluating sleep disordered breathing using the Nox T3 by Carefusion. This is the second year that David has invited me to participate and I am grateful for the opportunity to contribute. I continue to be impressed with the effort the NFLPA takes to foster the community atmosphere for ...Read More
Medicare and Private insurers raise rates for Sleep Apnea Dentistry
Sleep therapy continues to receive scrutiny by regulators and payors. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid have been monitoring patient outcomes and clinical yield for patients. There has been no formal announcement as to their findings however CPAP reimbursement continues to be cut while Oral Appliance Therapy reimbursement has officially been increased by Medicare. Revenue from code E0486 has doubled in recent months according to reports by ASBA members, Industry leaders predict that private insu...Read More
Sleep Apnea Treatment- The Canadian Experience
So, you’re tired of feeling tired or hearing from your spouse about your snoring. You go to your family physician, which refers you to a Sleep Specialist. After the Sleep Study results are available you are told that you stop breathing in your sleep 30 times an hour, something that would concern most people. You are then told about lifestyle modifications that you may want to consider, and various therapeutic approaches. But the one they highly recommend, and that the government sponsored Health...Read More
ASTHMA a Predictor of CHRONIC MIGRAINE ATTACKS
Pre-existing asthma may be a strong predictor of future chronic migraine attacks in individuals experiencing occasional migraine headaches, according to researchers from the University of Cincinnati (UC), Montefiore Headache Center and Albert Einstein College of Medicine, and Vedanta Research. The findings were published online in November in the journalHeadache, a publication of the American Headache Society. “If you have asthma along with episodic or occasional migraine, then your headaches ar...Read More
Public Awareness Provides Patients for ASBA Diplomates
David Gergen President of the ProPlayer Health alliance and executive director of the American sleep and breathing academy lead the team to victory last Tuesday night in Phoenix Arizona. Initially the idea of NFL football, Sleep Apnea and the Phoenix Police foundation don’t seem to fit together very well. It is important to understand that Sleep Apnea is a pervasive disorder that affects all walks of life and whose impact on performance at every level is real and measurable. Sleep apnea affects ...Read More
Tips and Tricks for Implementation of Sleep Dentistry into your Practice
I have been attending entry level Dental CE courses for snoring and sleep apnea for over 20 years. It has always been fascinating to me that a dentist can take hundreds of hours of course hours but never really manage to get Sleep Apnea Dentistry implemented into his or her practice. This is an all two common occurrence and I thought the article below by Dr Erin Elliott does a great job setting out some really clear, real world. tips for beating “Wednesday Morning Syndrome”. The cond...Read More