Healthcare Innovation April 14, 2021
A team of healthcare researchers has determined that the costs of Medicare reimbursing for remote patient monitoring equipment could become very high, even as clinical effectiveness standards have not yet been developed
Is remote patient monitoring, which has been welcomed by many in healthcare as supporting improved care management of patients with chronic illnesses, now being overused? The subject is a complex one, with nuances. Now, a team of healthcare policy researchers has addressed the issue, in an article entitled “Remote Patient Monitoring—Overdue or Overused?” in a Perspective article published in The New England Journal of Medicine online on April 15.
The article’s authors—Keizra Mecklai, Nicholas Smith, Ariel d. Stern, Ph.D., and Daniel B. Kramer, M.D., M.P.H., are from Harvard...
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