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The Medicare RPM backlash
Medicare’s plan to rein in spending on remote patient monitoring has prompted surprising pushback from insurers. Under these billing codes, Medicare pays health care providers to track and manage the health of their patients using connected devices like blood pressure cuffs.
As I report in a new story, UnitedHealth Group, CVS Health, and Kaiser Permanente all wrote letters opposing a medicare proposal that such remote-monitoring services be rendered directly by employees of the provider billing for it. Currently much of RPM is delivered by vendors working under the supervision of the billing providers.
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