sleep treatment specialists is a specialty practice in San Diego dedicated to treating sleep disordered breathing. CHAP accredited and provides all non surgical treatments for sleep apnea, snoring and sleep disordered breathing. Dr Bradley Eli DMD, MS is the specialist director and owner of the facility

1. The Business of Providing
Care for Obstructive Sleep
Apnea
SleepTreatment Specialists
Director: Bradley Eli, D.M.D.,M.S.
RespiratoryTherapist:George Lannon, R.R.T., R.C.T.
Certified Health Coach: Robin Forbes, MA
Sleep andWellness Conference 2015

2. Field of Sleep Disorders
•Sleep Disordered Breathing – New Field with typical
growing pains
•Diagnosis – Current pathway and rapid changes
•Treatment – Historic Pathway vs. CurrentTreatment
options
•Treatment Specialty – Born of the rapid expansion
ofTreatment options
•Treatment Specialist = Post DoctoralTraining in the
field / Cross trained / Multidisciplinary program.

3. SleepTreatment Partners
SleepTreatment Specialists
• Comprehensive Evaluation and Delivery of All Non-SurgicalTreatment
Options forOSA.
• CHAP Accreditation
• Only Provider and Organization within the Western US with Medicare /
CHAP /True Multidisciplinary Plan ofTreatment and Disease Management

4. Continuity ofTreatment
• We evaluate patient for success and are agnostic to care
• Other options can be identified
• Modification of care occurs in real time
• Patients are monitored in person for compliance
• Orders for DME contract providers are provided in a timely and direct form
• We work in harmony with equipment providers
• Associated disease states are identified
• Multiple plans of care are provided and coordinated
• Constant communication with all providers is made
• Compliance with care is confirmed
• Effectiveness of care is confirmed
• Patients are followed in a disease management model of care

5. We CanTreatYour PatientsWho Fail
• Suggested steps / Discussion
• Working with Hospital, Physician and Respiratory to ID patients upon intake
• Treatment consult would be completed
• Maintain monthly tracking of patients ID, treatment recommendations, care
acceptance
• Impact on quality of hospitalization, speed of recovery, re-admittance,
complications
• Improve information on disease and importance of treatment in overall health
• All patients are previously diagnosed in our care model

6. Our Experience
• Patients who are given a choice will comply with that choice at a much
higher rate.
• Patient CARE is the point not which type of CARE it is
• PAP non-compliance is often a function choice

7. Getting Started
• Find and complete good education programs
• Most current programs are taught by individuals in the field less than 5 yrs.
• Education of Staff and others on what is available
• Most programs fail as the doctor fails to engage the staff in how the process works
• Being clear as to what dentistry offers the field and what it DOES NOT
• Oral device use is NOT appropriate for all sleep disorders, “hating PAP” is not indication
• Creating teams both internally and externally
• Referral networks, Managed care programs, Medicare and other insurers
• Providing a service
• Dentistry provides a service unlike medicine. Wellness vs. Illness model of care

8. Closing
• Questions
• Forms and information gathering
• Examination and documentation
• Delivery of service
• Billing
• Following

9. ThankYou – American Sleep and BreathingAcademy
Bradley Eli, DMD, MS
Specialist,Treatment of Sleep Disordered Breathing
Board Certified, ASBA, Dental Division
http://www.sleeptreatmentspecialists.com