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Insurance companies are spying on patients through their sleep apnea machines to make sure they're using them, and experts warn it's part of the industry's playbook to make patients pay more

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Millions of sleep apnea patients rely on CPAP machines. Health insurers use many tactics, including surveillance, to make patients bear the costs.

 

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I haven't paid a dime for any CPAP supplies since I got my machine three years ago. And why wouldn't I use it? Sleep much better with it than without.

It isn't just spying through CPAP machines. At my doctor's instruction, I stopped taking a medication & had numerous calls from pharmacists & physicians who work for the insurance company as to why I stopped it.

Health insurance in the US is all profit driven. That's what happens when they have stockholders. Patients suffer.

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