Sleep Apnea: The $150B Problem

Name: Sleep Apnea: The $150B Problem
Uploaded: 2025-08-11T16:01:05+00:00
Duration: 43 s
Channel: Dr. Charles Mok
Description: Dr. Charles Mok explains why sleep apnea costs the U.S. economy $150 billion yearly. Only 1 in 5 to 10 people with it know they have it, and 94% go…

11 Aug 2025 · 1 min

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Dr. Charles Mok explains why sleep apnea costs the U.S. economy $150 billion yearly. Only 1 in 5 to 10 people with it know they have it, and 94% go untreated. He recommends everyone get a sleep study, preferring at-home tests, and reviews treatment options like CPAP and surgery.

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Dr. Charles Mok

2025-08-11

At-home sleep study (preferred for higher compliance).

Estimated 1 in 5 to 1 in 10 people.

About 1 in 3.

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So I would recommend everybody get a sleep study. Talk to your doctor about it. I prefer the at home ones because the compliance is much higher. If your doctor gives you a prescription to go to a sleep lab, probably not going to go. It's estimated only one out of five or 10 people that have sleep apnea know about it. Only about 1 of 3 that know about it are treating it, which means 94% of people with sleep apnea are not getting treated. And the economic impact of not diagnosing and treating sleep apnea in $2015 is about $150 billion a year. Billion dollars a year. So identify it, treat it. Doesn't matter what treatment you do. A CPAP or night lathe procedure, they all work about the same. The CPAP is sometimes covered by insurance. The surgery generally is not, but it could be by certain insurance carriers and the nightlights is not. But it's not very expensive.