RTs in DMEs specifically PAP therapy

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I worked as a cpap fitter for a small dme in Oklahoma doing about 300 setups a year on average. Most of the knowledge and things I learned were from my own need to improve and desire to learn. I also noticed that my retention rates through compliancy tended to be around 85-90% which I learned was higher than national and state averages. Basically, I enjoyed my job so much I decided to go to rt school, which will start later this year. Hope to start a business where I partner with dmes for a high touch patient focused program to get through their compliancy and better equipped to stay on their cpaps/bipaps. The more people get through and stick with it, the more likely they are to resupply and resupply is where DMEs make a lot of their money. Not to mention that the clinics in my area are so bogged down that people on cpaps kinda get left out in the cold. Outside of pulmonologists, my take has been that most health providers don’t understand a lot about pap therapy in general so the patients experience suffers. I think that a high touch rt led program will also help with referrals since the patient would get better outcomes and generally better informed overall within their therapy. So to any RTs out there working in or with DMEs, what are your thoughts?

Posted May 10, 2026, 10:02 PM UTC

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