VALUE OF SURGICAL AND NON-SURGICAL TREATMENT FOR SLEEP APNEA: A CLOSER LOOK AT HEALTHCARE UTILIZATION

Obstructive sleep apnea is a chronic disease affecting millions of people that significantly increases the risk for other medical co-morbidities. The overall impact on healthcare utilization and expenditure is substantial, so evaluating treatment and intervention and its effect on expenditure is important to decrease the burden on healthcare. Our purpose was to determine how surgery, no treatment, and CPAP impact healthcare utilization in patients who have obstructive sleep apnea. This is a retrospective cohort study of patients between the age of 18 and 75 who were diagnosed with obstructive sleep apnea from January 2007 to December of 2015.