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NEW KID ON THE BLOCK: REMOTE THERAPEUTIC MONITORING TO MAKE ITS WAY INTO CMS 2022 MEDICARE PHYSICIAN FEE SCHEDULE

NEW KID ON THE BLOCK: REMOTE THERAPEUTIC MONITORING TO MAKE ITS WAY INTO CMS 2022 MEDICARE PHYSICIAN FEE SCHEDULE

November 10, 2021Keelie TruellNo CommentsMozzazRemote Patient Monitoring,Telehealth and Virtual Care,Clinician Engagement & Education,Medicare, MA, MSSP, & Medicare ACOs,CMS, CMMI, Government, Policy & Regulations,Physician Fee ScheduleMozzaz

Recently, The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released a proposal for it’s 2022 Physician Fee Schedule. Over the last several years, more non-traditional modalities of healthcare have found their way into the CMS reimbursement landscape. This is promising as it suggests that CMS is aligning themselves with consumer demand and technology developments by incentivizing physicians to deliver care in a way that caters to the preferences of their patients.

The last five years, CMS has increasingly supported reimbursement for a variety of telehealth services like telemedicine and remote patient monitoring. Telehealth, a large umbrella term capturing a broad scope of remote healthcare services, has continuously grown in popularity across a variety of patient populations. In fact, in a recent survey, 57% of respondents indicated that they’d prefer to monitor ongoing health issues through at home devices, and 52% said they would choose virtual, versus in-person, appointments for their routine health visits (1).

Virtual care continues to rise in popularity as more data is discovered proving it can facilitate not only getting the right care to the right patient at the right time, but to their preferred location by the modality of their choice. As a result, CMS has expanded its 2022 proposal to include Remote Therapeutic Monitoring (RTM). Let’s dig in a bit more to the newest addition of the CMS-supported telehealth family…

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: 2022 Physician Fee Schedule, CMS, Medicare, Medicare Physician Fee Schedule, Physician Fee Schedule, remote patient monitoring, remote therapeutic monitoring, RTM, Telehealth, Telemedicine

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