5 Recommendations to Improve RPM Adoption

Remote patient monitoring has the potential to improve clinical outcomes by giving providers the ability to improve care management outside the hospital or doctor’s office, but its growth is being stymied by low reimbursement.A report released earlier this year by the Bipartisan Policy Center gives the government and the healthcare industry a blueprint to address that roadblock.While RPM has seen tremendous growth coming out of the pandemic, its future is in question. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) offers only a handful of CPT codes for remote physiological monitoring and remote therapeutic monitoring, enabling care providers to recoup.To make matters worse, the American Medical Association’s CPT Editorial Panel, which governs CPT codes, has hit a roadblock on new codes that would expand reimbursement opportunities.