Webinar date: August 18, 2023, 12:00pm ET
Objectives of this session included:
- Discuss current Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services PAP therapy adherent policy
- Harmonize and operationalize core recommendations for changing PAP adherence policy to promote equity
- Identify knowledge gaps that need to be filled before change advocacy
- Coalesce on an approach for change advocacy
- Consider possible downstream consequences of policy change
Panelists:
Vidya Krishnan, MD, MHS, FAASM
Professor of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine
Chair, American Academy of Sleep Medicine Advocacy Committee
Kathleen Sarmiento, MD, MPH
VHA National Executive Program Director, Sleep Medicine
Director, V21 Sleep Clinical Resource Hub & ORH TeleSleep Program
Professor of Medicine, University of California San Francisco
Vice-Chair, American College of Chest Physicians Advocacy Committee
Kathy Page, MD
Board Vice-Chair and Founding Member, Alliance of Sleep Apnea Partners (ASAP)
Member of Public Advisory Board of the ATS
David Bishop, LCSW
CEO and Founder, Sleep Equity Project
Moderators/Organizers:
Anna M. May, MD, MS (Moderator)
Assistant Professor, Case Western Reserve University
Associate Director Data Analytics and Informatics, Geriatric Research Education & Clinical Center, Louis Stokes Cleveland VA Medical Center
Martha E. Billings, MD, MSc (Moderator)
Associate Professor of Medicine, University of Washington
Medical Director Chest Clinic, UW Medicine Sleep Center
Susheel Patil, MD, PhD
Director, Sleep Medicine Program, University Hospitals
Chief, Sleep Medicine, University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center
Clinical Associate Professor, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine
Ninotchka Sigua, MD, ATSF
Associate Professor of Medicine
Roudebush VA Medical Center
Indiana University, Indianapolis, IN, USA
