HealthLeaders Media November 19, 2025
Eric Wicklund

With its final 2026 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule, the agency is making it a little easier for healthcare organizations to develop and sustain remote patient monitoring (RPM) programs.

As healthcare organizations make plans to move more services out of the hospital and into the home setting, they’re banking on remote patient monitoring (RPM) technology to keep track of patients outside the clinical setting.

But the path to sustainability has been rocky. Recent news that UnitedHealthcare is drastically cutting back RPM coverage to only two use cases is giving some healthcare leaders second thoughts about moving forward with new programs. And while supporters are blasting the payer’s decision, many others say there just isn’t a good business case...

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