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Health Care Savings: The Economic Value of Diagnostic and Therapeutic Care for Obstructive Sleep Apnea

Author(s) -

Nathaniel F. Watson

Publication year - 2016

Publication title -

journal of clinical sleep medicine

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.529

H-Index - 92

eISSN - 1550-9397

pISSN - 1550-9389

DOI - 10.5664/jcsm.6034

Subject(s) - obstructive sleep apnea , sleep medicine , medicine , watson , health care , family medicine , gerontology , sleep apnea , medline , emergency medicine , pediatrics , sleep disorder , psychiatry , computer science , economics , cognition , natural language processing , political science , law , economic growth

Two new white papers commissioned by the American Academy of Sleep Medicine (AASM) provide an in-depth, detailed analysis of the vast economic burden associated with undiagnosed and untreated obstructive sleep apnea among adults in the United States. While the individual health benefits of treating OSA are well established, these papers emphasize the value of comprehensive OSA testing and treatment, which can provide dramatic health care savings for payors and large employers.

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