Healthcare IT News December 16, 2025
UnitedHealthcare is one payer that’s limiting coverage of remote patient monitoring. But a recent OIG report on RPM and Medicare could fuel further expansion of this valuable virtual care approach.
There’s good news and bad news for remote patient monitoring in the year ahead. One piece of bad news is that UnitedHealthcare, the largest private health insurer in the United States, is moving forward with its plan for a significant rollback of its RPM coverage, starting in January. It will end coverage of RPM for chronic conditions such as general hypertension and Type 2 diabetes.
But there’s some good news, too – namely in the form of a report this past summer from the U.S. Department of Health and Human...
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