At 2 AM, a new mother in rural Alabama feels her heart racing. She's two weeks postpartum, alone with a newborn while her husband works the night shift. Her blood pressure reading on the home monitor shows 158/95. Within minutes, her care team receives an alert. By 6 AM, a nurse has called, medications are adjusted, and what could have been a stroke becomes a story of crisis averted.
Many health systems pay full-service RPM vendors $40–$80 PMPM for services they can in-source for far less. With 2025 Medicare rates and OIG scrutiny, it's time to revisit the build-vs-buy math.
A few months ago, a physician at a 12-doctor practice in rural California called me frustrated. His practice was hemorrhaging money on readmissions, his nurses were burning out from phone tag with chronic disease patients, and his administrator was getting pressure from...
Medical executives today face an uncomfortable reality: while navigating shrinking margins and mounting operational pressures, many are unknowingly surrendering millions in Medicare reimbursements to third-party vendors. The culprit? Poorly structured Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM), Chronic Care Management (CCM)...
Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) has rapidly evolved from emerging healthcare innovation into a strategic necessity. Driven aggressively by CMS reimbursement policies, RPM adoption has accelerated at unprecedented rates...
If you've spent any time managing a remote patient monitoring (RPM) program, you already know the drill: juggling the 16-day rule, keeping track of clinical minutes, chasing compliance, and often wondering if this is really what patient-centered care was meant to feel like...
Let’s be honest. Managing your health today feels like trying to coordinate a group project where nobody checks their messages. Your cardiologist, endocrinologist...
In my work with healthcare organizations across the country, I see two distinct patient profiles coming into focus. They represent the past and future of remote care, and every successful practice must now build a bridge between them...
It starts with a data spike… a sudden drop in movement, a rise in reported pain. The alert pings the provider dashboard, hinting at deterioration. But what if that signal isn’t telling the whole truth
Chronic pain isn’t just a condition, it’s a thief. It steals time, joy, and freedom from over 51 million Americans, according to the CDC, costing the economy $560 billion a year. As someone passionate about healthcare innovation, I’ve seen how this silent struggle affects patients, families, and providers...
The Office of Inspector General’s (OIG) 2024 report, Additional Oversight of Remote Patient Monitoring in Medicare Is Needed (OEI-02-23-00260), isn't just an alert—it's a detailed playbook exposing critical vulnerabilities in Medicare’s Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) system...