• Is the facility accredited by the American Academy of Sleep Medicine (AASM)?
• Is each of the facilities, organized under the name of a single company, accredited by the AASM?
• Is the ownership of the facility clear and easy to establish?
• Is the center listed in the phone book?
• If you call the phone number, does the person answering work at the facility
• Can you visit the center during the daytime to see the facility and meet the daytime staff?
• When you visit, is the facility clean?
• Is the facility designed and to be used for sleep evaluations only?
• Does each technician care for no more than two patients each night?
• Is the staff friendly, professional and competent?

• Sleep physicans—Sleep physicians own sleep centers to provide a service and to control the quality of testing.
• Hospitals and healthcare systems—Hospitals own sleep centers to provide a service and to direct patients to their other facilities and services.
• Corporate, multi-city/state location, non-sleep physician systems and those of unclear ownership—These sleep centers are operated primarily to make a profit. The majority of their business is selling the equipment needed to treat obstructive sleep apnea.

• Is the medical director a certified sleep physician?
• Does the physician medical director practice medicine?
• Can you make an appointment to see the physician medical director?
• Can you see a physician sleep specialist before any testing?
• Are patients who require testing seen in follow-up by a physician sleep specialist?
• Is the interpreting physician a certified sleep specialist?
• Will the interpreting physician be available to see you as a patient?
  

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