Remote Therapeutic Monitoring Resources

HEP Completion Rates: What Good Actually Looks Like

Ask most clinic owners what their home exercise program completion rate is and you get a shrug, or a number that came from a feeling rather than a report.

Licensed Virtual RTM Teams: What They Actually Do, and What Changes in 2027

Most clinics evaluating remote therapeutic monitoring ask what the software does. Fewer ask what the people do, which is strange, because the people are what Medicare is paying for.

If CMS Finalizes the Outsourcing Ban, What Happens to Your RTM Revenue on January 1

Every conversation I have had about the CY2027 proposed rule ends at the same place. If Medicare stops paying for outsourced monitoring, what does that actually do to the money? Here is how to answer it for your own practice, using arithmetic rather than a vendor's projection.

Your Options If Medicare Stops Paying for Outsourced Remote Monitoring

If you've been following the CMS proposed rule on remote therapeutic monitoring, you know the core worry. If it's finalized as written, Medicare would stop paying for monitoring done by an outside vendor's employees.

What the 2027 CMS Proposed Rule Means for Remote Monitoring in PT, in Plain English

If you run remote therapeutic monitoring in your practice, or you've thought about starting, you've probably heard CMS proposed a change in July that could affect how Medicare pays for it.

RTM Is a Labor Problem Wearing a Technology Costume

Every RTM demo looks the same. A clean dashboard. Adherence graphs trending up. A patient list color coded green and yellow and red. A billing summary showing what the practice could have collected last month if it had been running this all along.

Direct Employee, General Supervision, Incident To: The Three Phrases That Decide Your 2027 RTM Program

The CY2027 proposed rule turns on three pieces of regulatory language that most clinic owners have never had to think about. If the outsourcing provision is finalized, they become the vocabulary that decides whether your RTM claims get paid.

The Established Patient Requirement Will Break More RTM Programs Than the Outsourcing Ban

Most of the attention on the CY2027 proposed rule has gone to the outsourcing provision, which is understandable because it is dramatic. I think a quieter change will disqualify more claims.

The September 14 Deadline: How to Tell CMS What Outsourced RTM Does for Your Patients

Comments on the CY2027 Physician Fee Schedule close at 11:59pm Eastern on September 14. After that the record is closed and CMS writes the final rule, expected around November 1.