Trends in Soft Palate Surgery and Reimbursements for Obstructive Sleep Apnea Among the Medicare Population
Soft palate surgery for OSA has declined amongst the Medicare population over 21 years (2000-2021). The more individualized and tissue sparing PP has risen in popularity but did not overcome the large decline of the traditional UPPP. Accordingly, there was a 75.7% fall in inflation-adjusted reimbursements. Overall, our data indicates a decline in soft palate surgery in the management of geriatric OSA, with modest relative increase in pharyngoplasty procedures.
Authors
- R. Peter Manes (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3180-7467)
- Edward C. Kuan (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3475-0718)
- Sina J. Torabi (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1964-7109)
- Madelyn Frank (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2894-1254)
- Rahul A. Patel (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0916-6923)
- Douglas K. Trask (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0550-442X)
Institutions
- University of California, Irvine (US)
- Yale University (US)
- Quinnipiac University (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Annals of Otology Rhinology & Laryngology
- Published
- 2024-10-24
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1177/00034894241288435
- Citations
- 5
- Primary Topic
- Obstructive Sleep Apnea Research
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 1.63