What Is Remote Patient Monitoring?
What is remote patient monitoring? Learn how RPM works, what data it captures, and why providers use it to improve access, outcomes, and care.
What is remote patient monitoring? Learn how RPM works, what data it captures, and why providers use it to improve access, outcomes, and care.
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A U.S. House committee unanimously passed a bill Sept. 18 that would extend the hospital-at-home program and telehealth flexibilities.The Telehealth Modernization Act of 2024 moved out of the Committee on Energy and Commerce and will now go before the full House. The legislation, which would be funded by pharmacy benefit manager reform, would continue the CMS hospital-at-home waiver for five years […]
Summary PointsThe Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released its annual proposed rule updating the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (MPFS) for calendar year (CY) 2025.1The proposed rule includes various provisions related to telehealth service delivery and other virtual care modalities. Similar to recent proposed rules, many of the provisions seek to extend temporary telehealth and virtual care flexibilities […]
As the adoption of telehealth, remote monitoring, and connected care technologies continues to increase, it’s important for healthcare leaders to stay on top of the latest updates in telehealth reimbursement. Some of the most significant updates come from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), which released its final rule for Medicare payments under the Physician Fee […]
If you are a medical professional interested in leveraging remote technology to optimize patient health, this guide outlines remote therapeutic monitoring codes for 2024 and how to bill using RTM CPT codes. Remote therapeutic monitoring (RTM) is similar to remote patient monitoring. However, RTM is used to acquire non-physiological patient data for the respiratory and musculoskeletal […]
February 15, 2024 Anne Dwyer This month, CMS released an updated State Medicaid and CHIP Telehealth Toolkit consolidating information from previous toolkits and providing additional guidance – as required by the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act – on issues from billing best practices to strategies for using telehealth in schools. In addition to FAQs on issues such as benefit flexibility, financing, […]
Hospitals across the nation are facing financial constraints and unprecedented staffing shortages. This situation is compounded by the growing need to provide skilled, resource-intensive care for sicker patients being admitted to hospitals’ general care units. This situation is not only impacting clinical staff, who are overworked, stretched thin and reporting high levels of burnout, but […]
The next generation of healthcare will have a face that will likely be much different than anything seen before. The push to rapid innovation, especially in the wake of COVID-19 pandemic, resulted in solutions that provided new outlook in the way healthcare is supervised. As all the industries adjusted to working remotely, healthcare has been more benefitted […]
In November 2023, CMS issued final rules for the 2024 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (MPFS) and the 2024 Medicare Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS). Both of these rules contained finalized policy proposals that will impact rural health clinics (RHCs) beginning in January 2024: Telehealth Flexibilities CMS has officially extended some telehealth flexibilities that were allowed […]
The 2024 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule final rule, released by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) earlier this month, extended certain telehealth-related flexibilities that were implemented during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic. CMS issued a Fact Sheet summarizing the telehealth updates, as well as other important Medicare policy changes. Until 2020, Medicare reimbursed […]