Billing Disparities in Home Sleep Testing: The Role of Sleep Medicine Board Certification and Practice Setting.

Umesh Ghimire, Heather L Taylor, Scott R Houle, Snigdha Pusalavidyasagar, Wajahat Khalil

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Article in Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland), 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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5 authors.

Umesh GhimireDepartment of Health Policy & Management, Fairbanks School of Public Health, Indiana University Indianapolis, Indianapolis, IN 46202, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-4246-8379

Heather L TaylorDepartment of Health Policy & Management, Fairbanks School of Public Health, Indiana University Indianapolis, Indianapolis, IN 46202, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-0958-9408

Scott R HouleDivision of Health Policy and Management, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA.ORCID 0009-0001-5855-591X

Snigdha PusalavidyasagarDivision of Pulmonary, Allergy, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-0498-6551

Wajahat KhalilDivision of Pulmonary, Allergy, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA.

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board-certified sleep specialisthealthcare costshealth services researchhome sleep testingobstructive sleep apneaOSA diagnosisprovider charges

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PMID42451014

DOI10.3390/healthcare14132004

PMCPMC13361514

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