Thomas Ferrante and Rachel Goodman Quoted on Remote Patient Monitoring Reimbursement

Foley & Lardner LLP partners Thomas Ferrante and Rachel Goodman offered insight on reimbursement requirements for remote patient monitoring (RPM) in the HealthLeaders article, “Has Remote Patient Monitoring Hit a Roadblock?”

An issue in the push to improve RPM reimbursement is the requirement that a health care provider collect at least 16 days of RPM data from a patient over a 30-day period to bill for Medicare reimbursement through the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.

In a 2023 Foley blog on the topic that is cited in the article, Ferrante and Goodman wrote, “Since separate payments for [RPM] services were established, industry stakeholders have advocated against this 16-day requirement, arguing that it is clinically arbitrary and ignores conditions where a reduced number of days would be more clinically appropriate.”