Le parcours du combattant pour l'ouverture d'un lit de sommeil en médecine libérale

The private Sleep Medicine Centres are done rare. The responsible physician is often «a somnologist», general practitioner titular of a university or inter-university diploma and whose exclusive activity is the sleep. To settle, this physician must find an establishment of health private, buy or rent its material of which the polysomnograph, to remunerate its personnel and sleep scoring. This discipline not being recognized by the social security, the quotation used for the consultation is that of general medicine. These centres diagnose and treat all sleep disorders: sleep apnea to insomnia while passing by the narcolepsy or the hypersomnia.