MedCity News January 6, 2020
With the new CMS rules going into effect in 2020, providers have more opportunity than ever before to seize these benefits by collecting critical patient information while streamlining talent and spatial resources.
This past fall, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued its final rules on Chronic Care Remote Physiologic Monitoring (RPM). Following on from the inclusion of three new current procedural terminology (CPT) codes in the 2019 Physician Fee Schedule, CMS has added a code for remote patient monitoring in 2020 that allows the billing of an additional 20 minutes of clinical time. It also removed a number of provisions that had made RPM operationally challenging.
This is a big deal in the RPM industry. Firstly, it...