— Sicker patients may be less likely to qualify for affordable medication
by John Logan, MD
July 18, 2026
• 4 min read
I spent 10 minutes in complete silence in my patient's room today, my eyes scanning lines of text in the electronic medical record. I wasn't looking for a life-threatening lab value or an undiscovered malignancy. I was hunting for an old diagnostic code for obstructive sleep apnea. When I finally found the assessment section of a sleep study from 2019, I celebrated. She had mild obstructive sleep apnea (OSA).
