Medical Economics November 4, 2025
Key Takeaways
- RPM adoption in primary care practices led to a 20% increase in Medicare revenue over two years, primarily from RPM billing and additional care management.
- Practices using RPM served more diverse and higher-risk patient panels, including more non-White and dually eligible Medicare-Medicaid patients.
- RPM implementation did not reduce access for non-RPM patients, as practices saw an overall increase in patient visits.
- Researchers caution that unchecked RPM expansion could increase federal costs, highlighting the need for evidence-based reimbursement policies to ensure sustainable RPM services.
Practices using remote physiologic monitoring expanded care access without cutting visits for other patients.
Remote physiologic monitoring (RPM) may be doing more than helping patients track blood pressure and glucose levels visits and...







