Lead to Higher Healthcare Costs

Untreated sleep disorders lead to higher healthcare costs Approaching Sleep Medicine with Disease Management as a focus, results in direct cost saving benefits for patients, health plans, and employers. These are some examples that have been demonstrated and published in scientific literature:

Patients suffering from Sleep Apnea incur substantially higher health care costs than the general population.
In a 10-year retrospective study of patients with Sleep Apnea, their health care costs were almost twice that of the control group.
- Kryger et al from Manitoba Health Database records
Patients with undiagnosed Sleep Apnea spend more time in the hospital.
The Sleep Apnea group spent almost three times as many nights in the hospital.
- Kryger, et. al. SLEEP 1996

Leading to Major Operations & Accidents

Those studies do not cover large expenditures such as open-heart surgeries, strokes, and frequent motor vehicle accidents caused by excessive daytime sleepiness.

A multitude of scientific publications have demonstrated the link between Congestive Heart Failure (CHF) and Sleep Disorders, Strokes and Sleep Disorders, and the risk untreated patients are at when driving vehicles and operating heavy machinery.

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