About
About this site
ApneaAuthority publishes equipment specifications, insurance coverage information, and provider listings for obstructive sleep apnea. It is published by TKTK_ENTITY, TKTK_CITY_STATE.
We are not clinicians and this site does not pretend to be a clinical resource. What it does is gather information that is public but scattered — manufacturer specification documents, payer coverage policies, federal coverage determinations, provider registry data — and present it in a form you can act on, with the source attached.
Contact: [email protected]. If something here is wrong, we would rather hear it than not.
Editorial standards
Specifications come from manufacturer documents. Not retailer listings, not review sites. Each of the 32 masks and 30 machines carries the document it came from and the date it was checked.
Coverage information cites the payer's own policy. Our insurer dataset covers 148 payer-and-treatment combinations. Where a payer publishes no policy we record that, and where a policy is locked behind a provider login we record that too — both are findings, not gaps.
Unknown is written as unknown. Where a figure isn't published, the field reads "Not published." We do not estimate and we do not quietly drop the row to make a page look complete.
We distinguish what a manufacturer states from what we infer. A published weight is a manufacturer fact. Whether a mask suits a side sleeper is our inference from its design. Those are different kinds of claim, and every one on this site is labelled with which it is.
Tools describe, they don't diagnose. The mask finder rules out masks by physical design and shows its reasoning. It does not name a best mask, interpret your therapy data, or suggest a pressure setting.
How we label what we know
Most sites present everything they publish with the same confidence. We don't, because the claims are not the same kind of thing. Every factual block on this site carries one of four labels.
| Manufacturer stated | Printed in a manufacturer specification sheet, technical guide or safety notice. Weights, sound levels, cushion sizes, pressure ranges. The source document is recorded against every record. |
|---|---|
| Derived from design | Our inference from how the product is built. Whether a mask suits a beard, a side sleeper, or someone who gets sores on the bridge of their nose follows from where the cushion physically sits — but no manufacturer publishes it as a claim. Defensible, and ours rather than theirs. |
| Retailer observed | A price seen at a named retailer, used only where the manufacturer publishes none. The retailer and date are recorded. |
| Not published | Nobody states it. We show the gap rather than filling it, which is why our specification tables have visible holes and other sites' do not. |
The distinction that matters most is the second one. A contact map showing that a nasal pillow mask does not touch the bridge of your nose is a design fact we are confident about. It is still our reading, not ResMed's — and if you think we have read it wrong, tell us.
Medical review
Pages on this site are written and fact-checked by our editorial team, and are not currently reviewed by a clinician. We say that plainly rather than implying otherwise.
That constraint shapes what we publish. We write about coverage, billing, equipment specifications and procurement, where the authority comes from citing the source document. We do not publish pages that require clinical judgement — who is a candidate for surgery, what your sleep data means, which treatment will work better for you. Those require a qualified reviewer, and until we have one they stay unwritten.
When clinically reviewed content is published, it will carry the reviewer's name, credentials, and review date.
Corrections
Email [email protected] with the page and what is wrong. We correct factual errors as soon as we can verify them, and every page shows the date its figures were last checked against source.
Coverage rules and product lines change. A page verified six months ago may no longer be accurate, which is why the date is on the page rather than hidden in a sitemap.
How this is funded
Two ways, and you should know both.
Affiliate commission. Some retailer links earn a commission. This never affects which products are listed, what is said about them, or their order — databases are sorted alphabetically or by design attribute, never by what pays.
Featured directory listings. Practices can pay to be featured on a city page. Featured listings are labelled as featured and sit above unclaimed ones. Payment does not determine whether a practice is listed, and it does not buy a recommendation — we make no quality judgement about any practice and say so on every directory page.
We do not accept payment to write about a product, publish sponsored content as editorial, or sell information about visitors.
No conflicts to declare. We hold no financial interest in any manufacturer, supplier, insurer or practice mentioned on this site beyond the affiliate relationships described above.
Provider listings
Listings are compiled from public provider registry data and from practices' own websites. Inclusion is not an endorsement, and a listing not confirmed by the practice says so on its face.
If you run a practice and something is wrong, email us and we will correct it. If you would rather not be listed, email us and we will remove it the same day, without asking why.
Privacy
We collect as little as possible. The mask finder runs entirely in your browser — your answers never leave your device and are never sent to us. We count outbound clicks on directory listings in aggregate, recording only which listing, what kind of link, and the date. No IP address, no cookie, no identifier, nothing that could tie a click to a person.
What this isn't
This is not medical advice and it is not a substitute for the clinician managing your therapy. Sleep apnea is diagnosed with a sleep study, and treatment decisions belong with a qualified professional who knows your case.
If something here contradicts what your clinician has told you, believe your clinician — and please tell us what we got wrong.