In your discussion of continuously-connected household appliances, you wrote:
3. My Positive Airway Pressure (PAP) appliance has a built-in cellular modem and thus offers to advise me, via an app, on the “quality of my sleep” (declined).
Regardless of reporting the sleep statistics to you, if you have insurance coverage for CPAP replacemen…
In your discussion of continuously-connected household appliances, you wrote:
3. My Positive Airway Pressure (PAP) appliance has a built-in cellular modem and thus offers to advise me, via an app, on the “quality of my sleep” (declined).
Regardless of reporting the sleep statistics to you, if you have insurance coverage for CPAP replacement supplies (filters, masks, headgear, hoses, tanks, etc.), your machine probably is reporting your nightly usage to your sleep-care medical provider. Most insurance companies, and Medicare, won't cover these supplies without confirmed regular usage of the machine.
I know that some CPAP users will mail (or hand-deliver) their CPAP SD-card to their sleep-care provider, on a monthly or bi-weekly basis, to avoid this internet monitoring.
Mark - Fortunately in my case, that's not required. I check in with my sleep care provider annually, and bring the machine with the SD card. But that requirement does makes some sense.
In your discussion of continuously-connected household appliances, you wrote:
3. My Positive Airway Pressure (PAP) appliance has a built-in cellular modem and thus offers to advise me, via an app, on the “quality of my sleep” (declined).
Regardless of reporting the sleep statistics to you, if you have insurance coverage for CPAP replacement supplies (filters, masks, headgear, hoses, tanks, etc.), your machine probably is reporting your nightly usage to your sleep-care medical provider. Most insurance companies, and Medicare, won't cover these supplies without confirmed regular usage of the machine.
I know that some CPAP users will mail (or hand-deliver) their CPAP SD-card to their sleep-care provider, on a monthly or bi-weekly basis, to avoid this internet monitoring.
Mark AD7EF
Mark - Fortunately in my case, that's not required. I check in with my sleep care provider annually, and bring the machine with the SD card. But that requirement does makes some sense.