STAT November 7, 2025
The policy change will go into effect in January
Beginning in January, UnitedHealthcare will no longer pay physicians to remotely monitor the data that patients collect at home about chronic conditions like hypertension.
The updated medical policies for both Medicare and commercial health plans from the country’s largest insurer were posted in September and apply to most of the remote physiologic monitoring (RPM) of patient conditions using devices like blood pressure cuffs and scales. The policy states that RPM “is not reasonable and necessary due to insufficient evidence of efficacy”...
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