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NorthStar Medical is contracted with most major medical insurances.

Some of the most common insurance companies we work with are Regence Blue Shield, Kaiser Permanente of Washington, Premera Blue Cross, Healthcare Management Administrators, Medicare, Uniform Medical Plan, United Healthcare, First Choice Health Network, Tricare, Essence, CIGNA, Molina, Lifewise, Community Health Plan, Teamsters Welfare Trust, Medicaid and Molina to name a few. If your insurance isn’t listed, don’t worry! Please just give us a call and we can let you know if we are contracted with them.

If your physician has referred you to NorthStar for a sleep appointment, one of our patient services representatives will be contacting you shortly to get you scheduled for a consultation.

If you have not been referred by a physician, but your insurance plan will allow you to see a specialist without a referral, please call our office, and we will be happy to schedule you for a consultation as a self-referral. If you are not sure if your insurance requires a referral, please contact the customer service line for your insurance company, which can be found on the back of your card.

Our pulmonary rehabilitation program takes most patients approximately three months to complete so that they can achieve the most benefit from the therapy. Patients can expect to attend sessions either two or three days a week, and sessions last for 90 minutes.

We do ask that you expect to attend all sessions. If an urgent situation comes up and you feel you will not be able to attend class, please contact your respiratory therapist to discuss it.

Please allow 24 hours for NorthStar to process and review your referral, and then one of our patient services representatives will call to schedule you for a one hour initial consultation with one of our knowledgeable sleep specialists. During this initial consultation your sleep specialist will be asking numerous questions to get to know your specific situation and develop an individual treatment plan for you, which may include an overnight sleep study.

The sleep technologists will wake you up between 5:30 and 6:00 am on the morning after your study. You are free to leave the clinic as soon as you get ready to go after waking. All patients are asked to leave sleep lab by 7:00 am each morning. We have rooms available with showers for our patients who need to get ready for work right after their study.

Please discuss this possibility with your sleep specialist during your initial consultation if you are concerned. Your provider has the ability to have a sleeping pill ready for you on the night of your study if you mention this concern in advance.

It takes approximately two weeks from the date of your sleep study to get your study results processed and interpreted. You will schedule a follow up consultation with your provider for two weeks after the study to go over the results.