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Apnealytics for DMEs: the 90-day window, found automatically

CPAP compliance for DMEs comes down to one question in the first 90 days: did the patient use the machine four or more hours on at least 70 percent of nights in some consecutive 30-day stretch? Apnealytics compliance autopilot answers it from the patient's own card, finds the window, and drafts the letter. Gear replacement reminders then feed your resupply cycle.

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Apnealytics for DMEs: the 90-day window, found automatically

The 90-day problem

Payers in the US commonly require documented adherence, four or more hours a night on 70 percent of nights during a consecutive 30-day period within the first 90 days of therapy, before continuing to cover the device. Missing the window means paperwork, a returned machine, or a patient who quietly stops.

For machines on a manufacturer cloud, the data is there if you have portal access. For everything else, cash-pay patients, machines bought secondhand, patients who declined the modem, it means asking the patient to bring the card in. Apnealytics gives those patients a way to read the card themselves and hand you the result.

What compliance autopilot does

Reads every night
from the patient's uploaded ResMed card: usage hours, nights used, AHI, leak.
Scans the 90 days
from the start date the patient sets, or from the first night on the card.
Finds the qualifying window
automatically: the first consecutive 30-day span where at least 70 percent of nights reach four hours. If several qualify, it shows the strongest.
Drafts the letter
with the dates, nights used, nights at four or more hours, percentage, average usage, average AHI and the machine's serial and model filled in.
Exports
as the doctor-ready PDF alongside the clinical summary, or the patient creates a clinician share link for you to view the window live.

If no window qualifies yet, autopilot says so and shows how many more compliant nights are needed before the 90 days run out. That is the number a coaching call needs.

How it reaches you

The patient is the account holder. They either:

Download the compliance PDF and email, upload or bring it, or
Create a clinician share link, which is read-only, aggregate-only, revocable, not indexed and excludes health identifiers by default. You open it in a browser, no account required.

Both need the patient on Pro ($8.99 a month or $99.99 a year). Comp codes exist, so a DME that wants to cover Pro for patients in their first 90 days can talk to us about that.

Resupply tie-in

Apnealytics tracks the patient's mask and machine from a catalog of 45 machines and 62 masks, with replacement reminders for cushions, filters and tubing and a one-tap reorder action. Today the reorder points to the patient's chosen retailer. On Pro, Mask Analytics shows seal, AHI and usage per mask, which tells you whether a resupply request is about a worn cushion or the wrong mask.

Push notifications for gear due never show health numbers on the lock screen, so a patient's phone saying "Cushion due" is all anyone else sees.

The roadmap item that matters most to DMEs is the consented roster view: your resupply-eligible patients, their last upload and compliance status in one list. It is coming, not here. See Clinics for what is live today.

Which patients this works for

ResMed AirSense 10 and 11, AirCurve 10 and 11, S9 and Lumis patients, from the SD card. Live.
Philips DreamStation 1 and 2, Fisher & Paykel SleepStyle: supported. Löwenstein prisma: partial.
Fisher & Paykel SleepStyle, BMC/React Health Luna/G3, Transcend: waitlist.
ResMed AirMini: no SD card, cannot be read by any tool.

Upload happens on the web portal; the phone apps show the result. The upload is incremental, so a patient who uploads once a month has everything you need for the window.

Setting a patient up

Give them three things at setup: the card reader they will need (see Which SD card reader), the Getting started link, and the date their 90 days began. Autopilot does the rest when they ask for a report.

FAQ

Questions people ask

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How does Apnealytics find the CPAP compliance window?

Compliance autopilot reads every night from the patient's uploaded card, scans the 90-day period from the start date, and finds the first consecutive 30-day span where at least 70 percent of nights reach four or more hours of usage. It drafts the compliance letter with dates and figures filled in, exportable as a PDF.

Can a DME see a patient's data without the patient sending it?

Not today. Apnealytics is patient-owned. The patient sends you the compliance PDF or a revocable share link. A consented roster view for providers is coming; email info@apnealytics.com if you want to be in the first group.

Does the compliance letter include the machine serial number?

The draft includes dates, nights used, nights at four or more hours, the percentage, average usage and average AHI, and identifies the machine model. Health identifiers are excluded from share links by default; the PDF is the patient's to hand over.

Does this work for patients without a ResMed modem?

Yes. Apnealytics reads the SD card, not the cellular modem, so it works for cash-pay patients, secondhand machines and patients who declined connectivity. Card import is on the web portal at my.apnealytics.com.

Can Apnealytics handle resupply orders for a DME?

Replacement reminders and one-tap reorder exist for the patient today. Routing reorders to a specific DME is not a published feature. Talk to us about what you need; it shapes what we build next.