Patients with chronic respiratory failure who meet usage criteria will have more access to respiratory assist devices.

I owned my first home for 10 years before I learned about the importance of attic ventilation. It wasn’t something I learned about in school, and must have been a part of the inspection report I ...

A subsequent study from the U.K. that randomized 116 COPD patients with persistent hypercapnia after recent resolution of respiratory acidemia to either home oxygen alone or with BiPAP-type home ...

Harper said ventilator coverage was approved within an hour of that call early last year. Doctors caring for Armant, who lives outside New Orleans, say they usually get decent ventilator coverage.

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Doctors around the country say insurers are making it harder to get coverage for home ventilators that patients with serious illnesses need as their lungs fail. They say patients often must ...

Some physicians believe insurers are making it harder on patients because more of the devices are being prescribed. Spending by the federal government’s Medicare program on the ventilators ...