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SUVOREXANT TAB,ORAL

Clinical Criteria Summary

Continuity of Care Inclusion Criteria

  • Veteran is transitioning care from Department of Defense to VHA and the medication is determined by a VA prescriber using shared decision making to be safe and clinically appropriate, or is needed for dose tapering / slowly discontinuing therapy

Exclusion Criteria

  • Narcolepsy and/or cataplexy
  • Concomitant therapy with STRONG CYP3A4 inhibitors
  • History of complex sleep behaviors
  • Active substance use disorder
  • Considered a high suicide risk
  • Untreated sleep-related breathing disorder-obstructive or central sleep apnea syndrome or central alveolar hypoventilation syndrome
  • Severe hepatic impairment (i.e., Child-Pugh C)
  • Receiving other drugs to treat insomnia

Inclusion Criteria

  • Prescribed and monitored by a VA / VA Community Care mental health or sleep provider or locally designated expert in insomnia
  • Documented diagnosis of insomnia characterized by difficulties with sleep onset and/or sleep maintenance
  • When available, cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia (CBT-I) has been tried, via face to face, tele-mental health or non-VA care
  • An adequate short-term trial of 2 formulary sedative hypnotics for the treatment of sleep onset and maintenance have been tried and failed to resolve symptoms or were not tolerated
  • An adequate trial of daridorexant has been tried and failed or was not tolerated

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