AUTHOR RESPONDS: Sleep medicine practice adaptations

It is getting harder to defend our patients' best interests, but we cannot just surrender. We need the patient actively involved to fully realize the benefits of insurance contracts they have accepted. We need to remind our medical societies to advocate vigorously for easier access to needed care.¹ If our readers can share their successful advocacy methods, we would like to hear them. Clinical science and public policy continue to evolve. We hope that our article might help both practitioners and our colleagues who work as carrier medical directors better to triangulate the "middle ground" of best practices.

Disclosures: M. Raphaelson serves on the Scientific Advisory Board and speakers' bureau and has received funding for travel and speaker honoraria from Jazz Pharmaceutical; practices sleep medicine and bills for related services; is president of Marc Raphaelson, MD, PA, Inc., which collects fees from governmental and commercial insurers; serves as Medical Director for SleepMed, Inc., a for-profit entity providing sleep medicine testing and treatment; and has prepared affidavits for Sleep Information Systems, a now- dissolved for-profit entity.

Reference

1. Raphaelson M, Brown DB. Sleep medicine practice adaptations. Neurol Clin Pract 2014;4:63-70.