Healthcare Hullabaloo: Sky Pilot

Ground Control to Major Tom. We’ve discovered a new medical loophole.

According to my TV Set (so it’s gotta be true!) there is a new medical billing loophole in town.

A new commercial for the “CPAP Care Club” is telling Sleep Apnea patients that, with Medicare and Commercial insurance, they can get new masks and tubing for their CPAP machines every 90 days. And shipping is free.

Now, I’m not saying that Sleep Apnea patients don’t need a new mask every 90 days – I don’t really know. All I’m saying is if they’re advertising the fact that people can get a new setup every 90 days on television, somebody is making a boatload of money on these masks.

You see, advertising on TV is very expensive, and the relative number of CPAP users is relatively small when compared to the general population. Yet, in spite of this, they are advertising these masks on TV – and you can bet that they are not losing any money. Ergo, the profit margin on these masks must be incredible.

It also means that the American medical consumer – you and I – are helping to pay for these overpriced pieces of plastic.

So now sleep apnea masks have joined the power wheel chairs and disposable catheters as the latest medical products that most people don’t use but are still heavily advertised on television. As I’ve often said, if you want wasteful spending and medical insurance abuse, just turn on the TV.

Hmmm…disposable catheters and CPAP masks. Maybe Mr. McGuire from the movie “The Graduate” was right – the future is plastics!

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