by Nathan Denny | Mar 29, 2022 | Insights, Population Health
Since 2015, chronic care management (CCM) has been recognized by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) as a model of treating chronic care patients outside of the clinical office setting. In the years since, some of the details and reimbursement amounts...
by Nathan Denny | Mar 18, 2022 | Remote Patient Monitoring, Insights, Remote Therapeutic Monitoring
Though it’s technically been around for decades, virtual care is a relatively new concept in healthcare. And thanks to emerging value-based models and new reimbursement allowances, it’s also being utilized more and more to help improve access and quality of patient...
by Nathan Denny | Mar 9, 2022 | Remote Therapeutic Monitoring, Insights
We’re only a couple of months into 2022, but we’re already seeing some exciting progress on the use of remote therapeutic monitoring. New CPT® Codes extending reimbursement to remotely-delivered therapeutic services are now in effect. Some enterprising providers have...
by Nathan Denny | Mar 2, 2022 | Remote Patient Monitoring, Insights
Updates to the billing and reimbursement of remote patient monitoring (RPM) have been in effect since January 1, 2022. As we briefly explained in a recent post here at the CareSimple blog, these new RPM codes from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)...
by Nathan Denny | Feb 23, 2022 | Remote Therapeutic Monitoring, Insights, Remote Patient Monitoring
The addition of five new remote therapeutic monitoring (RTM) codes in the 2022 CMS physician fee schedule represents a major expansion in the reimbursement for remote care. Last week, we offered an overview of RTM for providers to understand just how, why, and when it...
by Julie Hervieux | Feb 17, 2022 | Remote Patient Monitoring, Insights
“…remote therapeutic monitoring, or RTM, refers to the remote monitoring and management of therapy services. Specifically, that means the monitoring of general medicine categories like musculoskeletal status, and medication and therapy adherence and response.” ...