Remote Therapeutic Monitoring Resources

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.

CMS Wants to Ban Outsourced RTM Monitoring. Here Is What the Proposed Rule Actually Says

CMS published the CY2027 Physician Fee Schedule proposed rule on July 16. Buried in it is a change that would end the way a large share of remote therapeutic monitoring gets delivered in this country.

No, RTM Is Not a Therapist-Only Service

Remote therapeutic monitoring has a naming problem. It is keeping physician practices out of a program they are already qualified to run, and it is pushing the ones who do run it into a compliance gap they never see coming.

The Technology Didn’t Change Patient Outcomes. The Engagement Did.

MovementRx was featured this week in Meditech Today's roundup, Digital Health Success Stories: Lessons from Patient Care Improvements. Our entry leads the piece, and I want to expand on the idea behind it, because it runs against most of what the digital health industry says about itself.