Posts by Neil Bhattacharyya, MD, MA, FACS
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Sleep Disorders Tally $94.9 Billion in Health Care Costs Each Year
Mass Eye and Ear researchers Neil Bhattacharyya, MD, MA, FACS, and Phillip Huyett, MD, found that sleep disorders are associated with significantly higher rates of health care utilization, conservatively placing an additional $94.9 billion in costs each year to the United States health care system.
Biography
Dr. Neil Bhattacharyya joined Mass Eye and Ear to see adult comprehensive otolaryngology and sinus patients. He earned his medical degree from the University of Illinois College of Medicine and completed a residency in otolaryngology–head and neck surgery at Mass Eye and Ear/Harvard Medical School. His clinical interests include endoscopic sinus surgery, obstructive sleep apnea, and sinusitis.
Mass Eye and Ear/Mass General Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery
A teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School, Mass Eye and Ear/Massachusetts General Hospital combines the expertise of highly specialized ear, nose, and throat physicians, audiologists, speech-language pathologists and auxiliary health care professionals to provide care for patients with problems affecting the ear, nose, throat, head and neck areas. The department, which is led by Chief and Chair Mark A. Varvares, MD, FACS, is one of the largest otolaryngology–head and neck surgery (OHNS) departments in the country, with more than 70 physicians staffed at 15 locations in the greater Boston area.
