can any doctor write a prescription for a cpap machine or only sleep specialists?
i know i have severe sleep apnea because i had a mono which gave me a bad case of tonsillitis and i was trying to figure out why i couldn’t sleep for the past month, so can i call my regualr doctor as an emergency to get a cpap machine or do i have to wait until i schedule a sleep study?
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Any doctor can write a prescription for anything. It’s in the spirit of "do no harm" that they let a specialist write for things not within their specialty.
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Any doctor can write a prescription for a CPAP machine. But, if you intend for your insurance to pay for it, you will have to have a sleep study first.
CPAP machines are not covered under insurance unless certain criteria are met by the patient when they have the sleep study. In other words, do you really need a CPAP machine?