Medicare the program for seniors and people with certain disabilities does provide coverage for custom oral appliances for osa and covers specific oral appliances.
Oral appliance for sleep apnea covered by medicare.
For a dentist to receive reimbursement from medicare or to bill medicare for an oral appliance for sleep apnea the treating dentist must enroll their practice location as a.
It results in your breathing stopping and restarting randomly which can be dangerous for your overall health.
In order to qualify for coverage.
Trying to provide an alternative form of oral sleep appliance would automatically result in a rejection of medicare benefits no matter how hard you try to support your claim.
In order to qualify for coverage.
The most common form of sleep apnea is obstructive sleep apnea and medicare does offer coverage for some dental appliances that.
Sleep apnea is a serious disorder that affects your body s ability to breath while you are sleeping.
The patient must visit a doctor before seeking coverage for the device and the device must be ordered by the dentist.
Under the draft policy coverage for the device applies where.
Also medicare covers a cpap machine or oral appliance to help with sleep apnea with a doctor s prescription.
Medicare will cover oral devices for obstructive sleep apnea if they meet certain criteria and are deemed medicare approved.
Depending on the medicare plan you have you may be responsible for a portion of the cost.