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by phickey 642 days ago
They don't advertise themselves as such, for obvious reasons, but there is at least one online CPAP dealer in the US that will sell to you without prescription verification. (Why should I wait 3 months for an appointment, drive an hour round trip, and $50 copay, to renew my rx so I can buy more masks, which wear out after a year or two?)
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I used Lofta and it was about $189ish. Then, I got the subscription from them and bought my CPAP from CPAP.com using my HSA.
What to search for? Link?
I don't know who will do it without any kind of prescription, but it's pretty trivial to get an at-home test from someone like 1800cpap and they'll write a prescription based on the results. I bet they have a nearly 100% rate of writing prescriptions, given the obvious conflict of interest.
> I bet they have a nearly 100% rate of writing prescriptions, given the obvious conflict of interest.

Even if they are honest I'd expect near 100% - people who don't expect they have issues are not going to be getting the at home test in the first place.