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Remote Patient Monitoring (“RPM”) uses digital technologies to gather physiologic data from patients in one location (e.g., their home) and transmit that information to healthcare providers in another location (e.g., their doctor’s office) for analysis. RPM devices can collect various forms of health data, including vital signs, blood pressure, heart rate, and electrocardiograms, among others. Providers can use this data to monitor patients’ health conditions, provide recommendations, and/or make changes to a patient’s care plan.

In 2018, CMS began providing standalone reimbursement for Remote Patient Monitoring (“RPM”) services under CPT code 99091. The final 2019 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule released on November 1, 2018, created several new RPM codes for 2019 in the category titled  “Chronic Care Remote Physiologic Monitoring” (RPM) (CPT codes 99453, 99454, and 99457). Then, CMS added yet another code to RPM mix in the 2020 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule: CPT code 99458, an add-on code that represents each additional 20 minutes of time spent providing RPM services beyond what is required for CPT code 99457. Finally, CMS provided additional updates and detailed guidance regarding RPM in the 2021 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (the “2021 Rule”). 

RPM services can be beneficial to patients, providers, and healthcare facilities. RPM helps patients by keeping them healthy and offering fast, easy access to their physicians without having to leave their home, increasing their quality of life and decreasing their healthcare costs. RPM can help physicians and health care facilities reduce the overall number of hospitalizations, readmission rates, and patients’ length of stay. All of these factors can help reduce the overall cost of care. 

Physicians and other eligible practitioners that incorporate RPM services into their practice may also increase their performance scores under MACRA’s Quality Payment Program (“QPP”). Implementing RPM services can boost scores in both the Improvement Activities category and the Promoting Interoperability category (formerly Advancing Care Information category), contributing to a higher overall performance score.