Sleep Study Rip-Off

I truly agree. Especially when the companies demand you purchase your machines through their suppliers when most insurance companies pay for the machines if needed. The 600 bucks I paid as "my share" was more than the deductible on my insurance by about a buck. But, like I said.....worth it to me. I have no complaints.

 

Yes, the clinic that told you to perform a non mandatory sleep study. Tell them to stick it and go get a different job. When these ######## cant fill seats because of their stupid policy that isn't for the health of their drivers and only used as a way to shift liability off themselves then they will stop this sleep apnea ########.

 

Just go get a different job! THUD (hitting my forehead), why didn't I think of that? Just give up my vacation, seniority, etc. Just walk away.That'll show em! That'll make 'em stop!

And you will ASSURE ME that the next company won't require a new physical, and the new clinic won't want the same?

 

Oh Concentra tried to pull this #### on me a year ago in April. First the nurse tried to measure my neck and did so so loosely that I could slip it over my head. Once I barked about that they did it again and suddenly i'm at like 16 1/4 inch. But that clown of a doc who didn't even spend more than 2 minutes in the room claimed that I needed to have one done. (The sleep study.) Told him out right that's not going to happen cause what he was doing was not part of the DOT Psychical. He tried to claim that federal guide lines say else wise. I told him he was not reading it right, told him to either retract his claim or I start filing complaints. I was given a long form that was riddeled with errors on there. From not listing all the meds I was taking, to where he tried to put the neck size. the first number was scribbled out and the new one next to it. That's a BIG NO NO. it should have a single line through it with the new number and the persons initials next to it. With how it was on there it looked as if I tried to change the number. I wrote on their face book about this issue. Got a hold of the regional manager who said that yes there was several errors on the long form. She tried to offer me to come back to have someone else do the physical for me, told her hell no. Told her that even if i was bleeding out on their door steps I'd use the last ounce of strength to write DNR on my forehead than be treated by them. Then I also filed a complaint with the illinois board of doctors.

 

The worst thing about the machine is that it can tell the difference between actual use as opposed to run time. Otherwise I'd just strap it on the dog. He's so old he just lays around most of the time anyway.

 

Hate to break it to you but most clinics don't bother with it unless they are asked to. As far as you keeping the job, well suck em off if you want to, that's your business.

See the problem right now is that there are plenty of drivers out there to cover the jobs available. The economy still sucks, if it ever recovers this sort of garbage will go away as companies start competing for drivers again.

 

They have these new drivers shaking in their boots
It's plain to see they intend to take full advantage of these young drivers , having the drivers foot the bill for this also? .... Wow
That's pushing it
I bet they would forget about this idea real fast if these drivers told them to" keep it "

 

I was thinking the same thing... we don't do anything with Sleep Apnea, and we are a "best practices/by the book plus one" on everything...

 

Go peddle that manure somewhere else. I've got a job with a company that I worked my butt off to earn, and it provides a good life for me and my family. I can play ball and comply with something I find an annoying inconvenience, or I can wave around my "Live Free or Die!" flag and work twice as hard for less money somewhere else. The truth is, I don't have a problem with sleep studies and breathing machines as a whole because there are plenty of people that absolutely benefit from them. I just don't like them being pushed on everyone in a knee jerk fashion by a company with dollar signs in its eyes. Someone said elsewhere that this is company driven, but that's not quite it. It's driven by the insurance companies that dictate to the carriers who they will insure to operate their equipment. And it's being abused by places like Concentra because they see a way to make money.

I'm not exactly handjobbing the powers that be, here. I forward a lot of information about Concentra and the lawsuits that have been brought against them over this to my corporate office, and I've been lobbying them to allow each location to choose its own provider but it's an uphill climb. The allure of having the same provider nationwide is strong, and I haven't made any headway. But I'm making the effort to effect change from the inside. I'm not going to quit in righteous indignation because I don't like one policy. Being right doesn't put shoes on my kids or pay my mortgage.

 

Sorry, but this was ONE wayward doctor, doing her own thing. The company I work for has ZERO interest in sleep apnea, or sleep studies in general. They contracted with this clinic to do DOT physicals company wide. Matter of fact, after I had the study done, went to HR to schedule another physical, and they told me they weren't using that clinic anymore, for whatever reason. The new clinic didn't do anything with the study, never told 'em I had done it. Never measured BMI, or even mentioned apnea.