Healthcare IT News September 28, 2021
The inclusion of remote therapeutic monitoring codes in the 2022 Physician Fee Schedule suggests that transformations in digital health policy initiated in response to COVID-19 are beginning to have some permanence.
In the latest Medicare Physician Fee Schedule, the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services proposed for the first time a set of CPT codes for remote therapeutic monitoring.
These codes, according to the proposal, are intended to be used to understand the effectiveness of and the patient’s response to a prescribed therapy. In particular, CMS specifies that these codes can be used to monitor medication adherence.
In the U.S., preventable hospitalizations and emergency department visits related to medication non-adherence cost more than $300 billion a year, according to...
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