In fact, it’s a win-win care strategy that’s beneficial for patients, HCPs, payors, and healthcare systems.įor patients, RPM helps keep them connected to their care teams, which it seems they appreciate. Used most effectively, RPM has the potential to help health care professionals (HCPs) care for millions of Americans with manageable chronic diseases, such as diabetes, obesity, and hypertension. RPM uses information technology to transmit patient-generated health data gathered outside the clinical setting to the patient’s health care team so they can make assessments about the patient’s progress, and if necessary, intervene to make treatment adjustments aimed at improving outcomes. healthcare providers still not offering RPM? That’s a question we’ll explore here with an aim toward illuminating solutions that might help you on your way to integrating RPM into your practice. The benefits of providing remote patient monitoring services are substantial, widely acknowledged, and extend across the healthcare landscape. And the RPM adoption rate seems to be similarly slow in large healthcare facilities, of which only 20% acknowledge having any sort of RPM, according to a separate 2021 survey.
Then came the boon in telehealth utilization prompted by the COVID-19 pandemic, which-after the initial spike in Q2 2020-stabilized in early 2021 at a level 38 times higher than it was before the pandemic, with 13 to 17 percent of office and outpatient visits taking place via telehealth.īut “despite the broad adoption of telehealth,” according to a report by the Medical Group Management Association (MGMA), “RPM is one component of telehealth that has lagged.” Even though RPM’s use increases steadily each year, MGMA’s Stat poll of 586 healthcare leaders taken in June still found that 75% of medical practices have yet to offer it.
When the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services began reimbursing providers for remote patient monitoring (RPM) services in 2018, the health care community’s response at the outset was less than underwhelming.
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