Medical Economics March 6, 2024
Primary care doctors are protective of their patient panels and skeptical about quick-fix promises of better outcomes and more revenues.
CMS spending for RPM services jumped from $5.5 million in 2019 to $101 million in 2021, according to a study that suggested the main users were primary care physicians managing hypertension and diabetes.
But some primary care physicians are hesitant to use RM for a number of reasons. Aspects of it are still new. Primary care doctors are protective of their patient panels and skeptical about quick-fix promises of better outcomes and more revenues.
They’re also busy.
“Typically, their heads kind of explode and they just say, we don’t want to do it,” Williams said. “That’s been the pushback in...
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