how much time needed for a sleep study

pivot · Post by **pivot** » Thu Oct 26, 2006 7:56 pm

I have seen many posts asking if they were asleep long enough for a competent evaluation at their sleep study. So how long is enough for the doctors/technicians to really get an idea of your sleep. Is it one sleep cycle? Or is more time necessary??

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Thu Oct 26, 2006 9:59 pm

Most insurance requires a minimum of 240 minutes sleep time.

krousseau · Post by **krousseau** » Fri Oct 27, 2006 9:35 am

My insurance accepted 120 minutes-I got 3 hr in the diagnostic and just over 2 hr in the titration. Medicare requires a minimum of 120 minutes. I was leary of the results but xPAP for 8 1/2 months has been right in line with the AI, HI, AHI, and pressure findings.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Sat Oct 28, 2006 7:47 am

Yup, Medicare does require 2 hours sleep out of 6 hours bedtime. I only slept 42.5 minutes my first titration study and 98 minutes sleep my second titration study but the two combined exceeded the required minimum 2 hours sleep and I received my Resmed S8 Elite, Humidiare 3i and mask in short order. Like w/in 3 hours of getting home from the second titration study the DME was on the phone wanting to make delivery arrangements!

Of course, since I wanted the specific PAP machine and my doctor specifically scripted that machine and it wasn't one they carried it took them an extra 3 days to have it available. The wait was worth it to get what I wanted. I spent 2 nights on the RemStar Plus (w/o data card capability which is what I was insisting on). It was a nice machine, had it had the data card capability. Quiet. Nice size even w/humidifier.