AJMC May 11, 2021
Sleep disorders were found to be associated with significantly higher rates of health care utilization and cost, accounting for $94.9 billion in costs each year in the United States.
Sleep disorders may increase risk of health care utilization, with more than $90 billion in US health care costs associated with sleep-related issues each year, according to study findings published in the Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine.
With prevalence of sleep conditions such as obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) and insomnia growing, study author Phillip Huyett, MD, of Massachusetts Eye and Ear at Harvard Medical School, said in an email exchange with The American Journal of Managed Care®(AJMC®) that the lack of sleep medicine physicians has often led many primary care doctors,...
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