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The Inspire Excellence Program

Built on a foundation of hundreds of Inspire® programs to define and model the best practices that lead to great outcomes & experiences for patients and providers.

What are the Goals of the Excellence Program

Proven Path to Excellence

Expertise

You don't become great at anything without doing it repeatedly. Excellence programs work with Inspire patients consistently every month.

Provider Requirements

  • >1 Year of Experience

  • Consistent Patient Evaluation

  • Navigator (Point Person)

Patient Experience

Short appointment wait times and a structured approach to patient education leads to high patient satisfaction. Excellence programs have an efficient care pathway that improves the experience for patients and providers.

Physician or Provider Requirements

  • Established Education Process

  • < 6 Weeks to Schedule New Consults

  • < 6 Weeks Insurance Approval to Implant

  • Full Care Pathway Certification

Clinical Outcomes

Excellence programs have better than average therapy success as defined by the three core measures of success, compliance, symptom improvement, and reduction in disease burdens.

Physician or Provider Requirements

  • > 5.5hrs Nightly Use

  • < AHI 15

  • > 2pt ESS Reduction

Models of Excellence

Physician/Provider

Foundation expertise & outcomes

An individual physician or advanced practice provider (ENT or Sleep Medicine) consistently helping patients achieve their great outcomes with Inspire.

Care Team

Multi-disciplinary coordination

In this model, ENT & Sleep Medicine are collaboratively managing patients and have established a coordinated care pathway.

Center

Programmatic approach to population health

This is a true program model, not reliant on any one individual to continue providing exception care to CPAP intolerant patients in the community.

Recognition of Excellence

The Excellence designation allows patients to find providers or programs who have taken steps toward optimizing the pathway offering patients a best in-class experience throughout their entire Inspire® journey.

Where the provider excellence badge is located on the Find a Doctor page of the website
Where the provider excellence badge is located on the Find a Doctor page of the website

To learn more about Inspire Medical and the Excellence Program, please contact your local field representative.