Mitchell Tang News Today

Patients with hypertension at high RPM practices have improved hypertension care, but also have increased hypertension-related spending.

Patients with hypertension at high remote patient monitoring practices have improved hypertension care, but also have increased hypertension-related spending.

Billing for remote patient monitoring increased more than four times during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, with much of the rapid growth driven by a small number of primary care providers, a new study in Health Affairs found. In 2020, early in the pandemic, “Medicare and commercial payers made further changes to encourage the use of remote patient monitoring, including waiving

The COVID-19 pandemic encouraged use of remote measuring devices, but not among the patients who could benefit most, while enriching a small group of primary care physicians.