Mario Aguilar covers technology in health care, including artificial intelligence, virtual reality, wearable devices, telehealth, and digital therapeutics. His stories explore how tech is changing the ...

Representatives Mike Thompson (D-Calif.) and Glenn Thompson (R-Penn.) are set to announce a new telehealth bill soon. Like some of Mike Thompson's previous telehealth efforts, the bill seeks to amend ...

Medicare is making two major changes to how it pays for cardiac care. Beginning this year, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) are moving away from paying solely for services performed ...

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has locked in a rule that will allow home health agencies to report the cost of remote patient monitoring for reimbursement under Medicare. According to ...

A June 25 hearing in the U.S. House of Representatives highlighted some of the health care spending benefits of remote patient monitoring, but Medicare payment is seen as deficient – a problem that ...

The New York StateWide Senior Action Council (StateWide), a 54-year-old non-profit organization dedicated to serving the needs and well-being of our State's more than 3.6 million senior citizens, ...

Increase in Medicare revenue for practices adopting RPM mainly due to direct billing for RPM and more outpatient visits. (HealthDay News) — Primary care practices that adopt remote physiologic ...

Between 2018 and 2022, remote physiologic monitoring (RPM) claims increased, especially for Black (25,253 percent) and Hispanic (5,051 percent) Medicare patients. After adjustment for age, sex, and ...

- HR 6331 Medicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act of 2008, possible inclusion of remote monitoring provisions - HR 5765 Medicare Remote Monitoring Access Act, a bill to provide Medicare ...

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Companies that help physicians monitor their patients remotely, using blood pressure cuffs and other devices, scored wins on multiple fronts this week as Medicare regulators proposed to expand what ...