Board-certified
U.S. sleep medicine specialists
All 50 states
Licensed and ready to credential
From $49.50/study
Published rates
No minimums
No exclusivity or monthly fees
Turnaround
Stated plainly, because it is the question every lab asks first.
| Service | Turnaround |
|---|---|
| Scoring only | Under 3 working days |
| Interpretation only | 5 working days or less |
| Scoring and interpretation | 7 working days or less |
Bundling is faster than buying the two separately — scoring alone runs under three working days, and interpretation alone five, so sequentially that is eight. When our scorers and physicians work on the same study, questions are settled between them instead of routed back through your staff.
You cannot bill a study you have not finished, and referring physicians notice which labs are quick. Turnaround is a cash-flow number and a referral-retention number before it is anything else.
When the clock starts. The business day we receive the study or request. Anything that arrives during normal business hours, Monday through Friday, goes into the queue that same day.
If we miss it, that study is 50% off. The credit goes on your next invoice. There is no claim form to complete, and the timestamps on the study settle whether it was late. The guarantee is written into your agreement rather than left as a promise on a website.
Why labs outsource the read
A specialist reads every study. Sleep medicine is a subspecialty. A board-certified sleep physician reading full time sees patterns a generalist covering it between other duties will not, and that shows up in report quality and in how complex cases are handled.
Your medical director gets to be a medical director. Directing a lab and reading every study are two jobs. When one person does both, the reading is what slips—first into evenings and weekends, then into a backlog.
Turnaround stops depending on one person’s calendar. One physician’s vacation, illness, or busy stretch should not decide when your studies go out the door.
A specialist on call for the difficult ones. Not every study is straightforward. Having a board-certified sleep physician to call about a complex case has value beyond the report itself.
It works whether you are an IDTF, a group practice, or a hospital. The arrangement is the same; only the credentialing requirements change.
Telemedicine consultations, if you need them
Some situations need a physician to see the patient, not just read the study — a signed prescription for testing or therapy, or a clinical consult note for a pre-authorization. Our physicians see patients via telemedicine and provide both services.
Consultations run from $99, on a cash-pay basis or through insurance for Medicare and most national private carriers. Dental practices use this most, because payers frequently require a physician visit note before authorizing an oral appliance, but it is open to any client.
Coverage when your physician is out
Vacation, illness, parental leave, a resignation with two weeks’ notice — a single-physician lab has no bench, and studies stop moving the day the reader does.
This is one of the most common reasons labs call us, and our terms are built for it. No minimum, no exclusivity, and licensure already in place in your state means we can start reading without a licensing delay. Use us for three weeks or three years.
About our physicians
Every interpreting physician is U.S.-based and board-certified in sleep medicine. As a group, they hold licensure in all 50 states, which is why we can take work anywhere in the country without waiting on a license application.
Our physicians have served as a research reference standard. Device companies pursuing FDA clearance have used our physicians and scoring teams to produce the manually scored comparison against which their technology was measured.
Every physician carries malpractice coverage of at least $1 million per occurrence and $3 million aggregate. Full CVs, board certification, licensure documentation, and certificates of coverage are provided on request and as part of any hospital credentialing process.
Two ways to work with us
| Scored and interpreted | Interpretation only | |
|---|---|---|
| What we handle | Our team scores the study, then our physician interprets and signs the report. | Your team scores; our physician interprets and signs |
| Turnaround | 7 working days or less, start to finish | 5 working days or less |
| In-lab price | Our scoring rate plus $110, less 5% on the $110 | $110 per study |
| Home sleep tests | Our scoring rate plus $49.50, less 5% on the $49.50 | $49.50 per study |
| Before we start | Nothing extra | Our physician reviews your scoring team’s work first |
| Best for | Most labs | Labs with a scoring team already in place |
Why our physicians review your scoring first. When we interpret a study we did not score, our physician still signs the report, and that signature is a clinical attestation. So before taking interpretation-only work, our physicians look at your scoring team’s output and decide whether they are willing to stand behind it. Usually they are. When they are not, we will tell you exactly why rather than quietly decline the work.
It is also why bundling tends to work better. When our scorers and our physicians are on the same study, questions are resolved directly between them instead of routing back through your staff — which is where most of the delay in a slow lab actually sits.
Any software, and your security rules
We work inside the system you already use rather than asking you to move to a platform of ours. Nothing to migrate, nothing new for your staff to learn, and no export step in the middle of your workflow.
Access is controlled and encrypted. We remote into your system over VPN with encryption in transit. Studies stay in your environment — nothing is copied onto personal machines and nothing moves across home networks. Our physicians read from controlled offices, not from wherever they happen to be.
We carry cyber liability coverage. Opus holds a cyber liability policy sized for hospital vendor requirements, and we can provide a certificate for a vendor risk review. Most operations in this field do not carry one. It is worth asking any reading service about before you grant access to patient data.
We execute a business associate agreement. We have our own BAA, and we are equally happy to sign yours — hospital systems usually prefer their own form, and that is never a problem.
The economics
Most labs that outsource reading do it for margin, not just convenience. The usual structure is that the lab bills the study and pays a flat professional fee for the read, so the cost per study is fixed and known rather than carried as salary whether the volume is there or not.
Whether that structure is available to you depends on your payer mix, your state, and how your lab is organized — worth confirming with your biller or counsel before you model it. Where it applies, it is the single biggest reason labs outsource the read instead of employing a physician part time.
Rates
Published and the same for everyone. No minimums, no exclusivity, no monthly fees.
| Interpretation | Standard | With both discounts |
|---|---|---|
| In-lab studies, any volume | $110 | $99 |
| Pediatric in-lab studies | $110 | $99 |
| MSLT, MWT, split-night, PAP titration | $110 | $99 |
| Home sleep tests | $49.50 | $44.50 |
Using our scoring service too? Take 5% off your interpretation fees. Your scoring rate plus interpretation, less 5%, and the complete study comes back in seven working days rather than the eight it would take to buy the two separately.
Two discounts, 5% each. Run your workflow on an approved platform — currently Somnoware or EnsoData — and take 5% off. Use our scoring service as well and take another 5% off interpretation. Both together is 10%, which is the right-hand column above.
Approved platform pricing
If you run your sleep workflow on a platform we have approved, interpretation is 5% cheaper. As things stand that means Somnoware — now part of ResMed and running in more than 1,300 facilities — and EnsoData. We add platforms as we work with them, so ask if yours is not listed.
The reasoning is practical rather than promotional. Labs on a proper workflow platform have cleaner handoffs, fewer missed orders, and much less back-and-forth, which speeds up our physicians’ work. We pass part of that saving back.
It is not an endorsement of any one vendor, and we are not paid by any of them. If a platform makes the work cleaner, it qualifies.
We have brought Somnoware into several labs ourselves. If you are weighing a platform and want an unvarnished opinion on implementation, ask — no charge.
Hospital-based sleep labs
Our physicians are licensed in all 50 states and will go through your credentialing process. Hospital requirements are strict, as they should be, and our physicians have worked inside those systems before — so the paperwork is familiar rather than a first attempt.
Board certification, licensure already in place, and a willingness to credential is the combination that lets hospital systems outsource reading at all. Most cannot find it, so they assume the option is closed to them.
Medical direction
We also provide medical directorship in some circumstances, depending on how your lab is set up and the role's requirements. If that is something you need, ask us and we will give you a straight answer.
What we need from you
Your center must have a geographically local licensed physician serving as medical director. That is a requirement of the arrangement rather than a preference, and most labs already have one in place. Our physicians provide interpretation — they do not replace your medical director.
What you sign
Every client signs a short letter of agreement. It is not a lock-in — it exists so both sides know the terms before any patient data moves. It covers:
- Fees and payment terms
- Turnaround and the credit if we miss it
- Non-exclusivity — you are free to use other providers at the same time
- No minimum and no maximum volume
- No monthly maintenance or platform fees
- Operating logistics: access, contacts, and escalation
There is no term commitment and nothing that makes leaving difficult. If it stops working for you, stop sending studies.
Common questions
Let’s talk about coverage
Whether you need reading for one lab, cover while your physician is out, or a credentialed interpreter for a hospital system, tell us the situation and we will give you a straight answer about whether we can help.