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Physician specialty

Sleep Medicine

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At a glance

Practicing in the U.S.
2,082
Per 100,000 residents
0.6
Women
39%
Median years since graduating
22

Training path

  1. College (bachelor’s degree) 4 years
  2. Medical school (MD or DO) 4 years
  3. Residency in a primary specialty 3–4 years
  4. Sleep medicine fellowship 1 year

Training after medical school: 4–5 years. From the start of college: about 12–13 years.

Usual minimum program lengths from ACGME program requirements. Some doctors take extra research years or a second fellowship.

Who they are

  • MD (DOs make up the rest) 89%
  • Women 39%
  • Graduated 35 or more years ago 19%
  • Offer telehealth 69%
  • Accept Medicare’s approved amount 95%

Sex and credentials from NPPES. Graduation year, telehealth and Medicare assignment from Medicare Care Compare, which covers clinicians enrolled in Medicare.

Where they practice

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What they do most for Medicare patients

  • Established patient office or other outpatient visit, 30-39 minutes 230,451
  • Established patient office or other outpatient visit, 20-29 minutes 119,663
  • New patient office or other outpatient visit, 45-59 minutes 64,239
  • Sleep study in sleep lab with continuous airway pressure (6 years or older) 52,300
  • Sleep study in sleep lab (6 years or older) 48,549
  • Subsequent hospital care with moderate levelof medical decision making, if using time, at least 35 minutes 38,479
  • Established patient office or other outpatient visit, 40-54 minutes 35,238
  • Remote monitoring of physiologic parameters, initial supply of devices with daily recordings or programmed alerts transmission, each 30 days 33,111
  • Subsequent hospital care with moderate levelof medical decision making, if using time, at least 50 minutes 27,954
  • Sleep study including heart rate, breathing, and sleep time 25,641
  • Management using the results of remote vital sign monitoring per calendar month, first 20 minutes 22,973
  • Sleep study including heart rate, breathing, airflow, and effort 21,532

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Services billed to traditional Medicare in 2023 (Physician and Other Practitioners data); drugs given in the office are left out.

What they prescribe most

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Share of this specialty’s Medicare Part D prescriptions in 2024, including refills. Select a drug to see which of these clinicians prescribe it most, and where.

Hospitals where the most work

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Clinicians who list the hospital in Medicare Care Compare. The number opens the list of who works there.

Schools they graduated from most

  • Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine 17
  • Ohio State University College of Medicine 16
  • Wayne State University School of Medicine 13
  • University of Illinois College of Med (chi/peor/rock/chm-Urb) 12
  • University of Louisville School of Medicine 12
  • University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston 12
  • Michigan State University College of Osteopathic Medicine 11
  • New York College of Osteo Medicine of New York Institute of Technology 11
  • University of Washington School of Medicine 11
  • West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine 11

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From Medicare Care Compare (Medicare-enrolled clinicians only).

Industry payments

Drug and device makers reported $6.5M in general payments to 1,241 clinicians in Sleep Medicine in 2025. See who received the most

Source: CMS Open Payments, program year 2025. A payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Sources: CMS NPPES (counts, sex, credentials), Medicare Care Compare (schools, graduation years, hospitals, telehealth), CMS Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners (2023) and Part D Prescribers (2024), CMS Open Payments (2025), ACGME program requirements (training length), OpenAlex (research), U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2020–2024 (population).