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5 Simple Tips For Ruining an RPM Program

5 Simple Tips For Ruining an RPM Program

Running an RPM program is a complex and time consuming process, and there’s a lot that can go wrong. From billing codes and reimbursements to choosing the right device if you don’t know what you’re doing, something WILL go wrong. H

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AMA's Proposed Expansion of Remote Patient Monitoring CPT Codes: What You Need to Know

The American Medical Association (AMA) is considering a significant overhaul and expansion of Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) Current Procedural Terminology (CPT™) codes.

How do I know I will get reimbursed?

How do I know I will get reimbursed?

Historically, our customers receive 97-98% of their expected reimbursements when they opt to use the MPN Billing Services.

2023 in Review

2023 in Review

As we embark on a new year and a fresh chapter at Medek Health Systems, I extend my heartfelt congratulations to the team for an outstanding 2023.

Maximized CPT® Code Compliance with Medek RPM and Cellular RPM Devices

Maximized CPT® Code Compliance with Medek RPM and Cellular RPM Devices

RPM, remote patient monitoring, is becoming ever more present in the healthcare industry. It is able to provide an additional level of patient care, thus yielding improved clinical results. On top of that...

How to Choose an RPM Provider

How to Choose an RPM Provider

As a healthcare provider, you may already recognize the potential of Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) to transform patient care. But with countless RPM solutions available, how do you choose the one that best fits your practice's unique needs?

How Medek’s Remote Patient Monitoring Helps Physicians Stay Independent

How Medek’s Remote Patient Monitoring Helps Physicians Stay Independent

In the fluid world of healthcare, where independence remains a physician's cherished dream, Medek’s RPM emerges as a stalwart ally. By supercharging efficiency, deepening patient bonds, harnessing data's might, expanding care boundaries, and bolstering revenue, RPM is the torchbearer of physician independence, ensuring both they and their patients reap mutual benefits.

The Five W’s of Remote Patient Monitoring

The Five W’s of Remote Patient Monitoring

Delve into the intricate world of Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) with our comprehensive guide. We demystify its core, spotlight its beneficiaries, and unravel its transformative capabilities. From understanding the 'what' to navigating the 'when', this article serves as your beacon into tomorrow's healthcare.

The Top Ten Reasons Why a Medical Practice Needs RPM

The Top Ten Reasons Why a Medical Practice Needs RPM

Delve into the explosive growth of Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) and explore the top ten advantages it brings to medical practices. Discover how RPM can redefine patient care, streamline operations, and enhance revenue streams.

Why Does The American Heart Association Recommend RPM for Cardiac Patients?

Why Does The American Heart Association Recommend RPM for Cardiac Patients?

Delve into the American Heart Association's endorsement of Remote Patient Monitoring for cardiac patients. Explore how RPM is reshaping healthcare, offering enhanced patient engagement, cost efficiency, and more comprehensive care.

Greater Patient Engagement, Adherence and Retention with RPM

Greater Patient Engagement, Adherence and Retention with RPM

Dive into the transformative power of Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) in healthcare. From patient empowerment to significant data insights, see how RPM is reshaping the medical landscape.

How RPM is Effective in Managing COPD

How RPM is Effective in Managing COPD

COPD patients have limited options in treating and managing their chronic condition. RPM (remote patient monitoring) has been shown to provide effective management, and conclusive evidence of successful treatments. RPM aids...

The Many Benefits of RPM for Chronic Care Management

The Many Benefits of RPM for Chronic Care Management

For people dealing with chronic health issues, remote patient monitoring (RPM) has emerged as a powerful solution. Chronic conditions may include common ailments such as hypertension, diabetes, COPD, and congestive heart failure. Medical research has proven that...

RPM Alphabet Soup: Understanding the Acronyms of Remote Patient Monitoring

RPM Alphabet Soup: Understanding the Acronyms of Remote Patient Monitoring

The first step of any communication is to have the same understanding of any words being used. In the medical field, there are hundreds of acronyms, and RPM...

Can Remote Patient Monitoring Predict Hospital Readmission?

Can Remote Patient Monitoring Predict Hospital Readmission?

Dive into a groundbreaking study where the worlds of technology and healthcare intertwine! Discover how everyday gadgets like wearables and smartphones might just be the key to predicting and preventing hospital readmissions. With a blend of modern tech and keen insights, this clinical trial unveils a potential game-changer in patient care.

The Impact of Remote Patient Monitoring on Hospital Readmissions for Heart Patients

The Impact of Remote Patient Monitoring on Hospital Readmissions for Heart Patients

The NIH (National Institute of Health) recently published evidence1 regarding the health benefits and reduction of hospital readmissions when RPM (remote patient monitoring) and telemedicine are utilized for cardiac patients within 30 days of discharge.

The Importance of RPM for Cardiac Care

The Importance of RPM for Cardiac Care

In cardiac care, Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) is revolutionizing at-home health management. Dive into studies from the National Institute of Health and discover how RPM can detect early signs of heart issues and reduce hospital visits. Explore real-world applications, from monitoring hypertension medication to identifying early heart failure symptoms.

CCM CPT© Codes Can Expand Your RPM Program

CCM CPT© Codes Can Expand Your RPM Program

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) began in 2022 to promote the growth of remote chronic care management (CCM). Medical practices are seeing the benefit of adding CCM to their RPM program, and RPM to the CCM programs.

How to Serve More Patients in Less Time With RPM

How to Serve More Patients in Less Time With RPM

A study done by Health Services Research noted that the average length of visit between a Primary Care Physician and their Medicare aged patient is 15.7 minutes. Statistically, that means a doctor will see less than 4 patients an hour. This does not include dictation of notes, delegating duties regarding prescriptions, and other duties.

The Advantages of RPM Over Home Health Care

The Advantages of RPM Over Home Health Care

For years, the goal of home healthcare and remote patient monitoring has been to keep patients out of the hospital for as long as possible. As RMP has grown, especially during the pandemic, people have asked, “Does RMP work with or replace home healthcare? The simple answer is, “it does both.”

Why You Need CPT® Experts

Why You Need CPT® Experts

What are CPT® Codes, and why does your medical practice need experts in them? The Current Procedural Terminology (CPT®) is a trademarked set of codes accepted by Medicare and Medicaid. They offer health care professionals uniform language for medical reimbursements. They can streamline reporting, increase accuracy and reduce inefficiencies.

How RPM Can Provide More Available Time for Providers

How RPM Can Provide More Available Time for Providers

Time management, life balance and burnout are major issues facing healthcare providers. One study, published on the NIH website, reported 45.8% of physicians in the US would state they are having “burnout”. One innovative tool for reducing over-commitments is the growing field of RPM...

Impact of RPM on Hospital Readmissions for Cardiac Patients

Impact of RPM on Hospital Readmissions for Cardiac Patients

The NIH (National Institute of Health) recently published evidence regarding the health benefits and reduction of hospital readmissions when RPM (remote patient monitoring) and telemedicine are utilized for cardiac patients within 30 days of discharge.

Remote Patient Monitoring for Pregnancy Hypertension

Remote Patient Monitoring for Pregnancy Hypertension

For obstetricians, blood pressure monitoring is the most effective way to prevent maternal mortality and morbidity. This is because the onset of hypertension during pregnancy is responsible for 7.8% of all pregnancy-related deaths, according to HHS (Health and Human Services)...

The Future of Remote Patient Monitoring

The Future of Remote Patient Monitoring

There are over 25 million people in the United States who are currently using a type of “remote patient monitoring” device. Those devices have empowered and engaged patients in their healthcare, improved outcomes, reduced re-hospitalization rates, and added revenue to many medical practices. But this is small compared to where RPM (remote patient monitoring) is going in the future.

Can RPM and AI Reduce Bias in Healthcare?

Can RPM and AI Reduce Bias in Healthcare?

Dr. Arnaud Rosier PhD, recently published an article on how partnering AI with Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) can reduce innate...

Hypertension Higher In Men Than Women

Hypertension Higher In Men Than Women

June is Men’s Health Month. Hypertension, also known as High Blood Pressure, is one ailment that males are at higher...

The Rapid Rise of RPM: A 60% Market Boom

The Rapid Rise of RPM: A 60% Market Boom

It's truly an exciting time for the Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) sector. A recent report by Research And Markets, released in April 2023...

High Blood Pressure Has Many Variables BUT Only One Way to Measure Success

High Blood Pressure Has Many Variables BUT Only One Way to Measure Success

Hypertension, the medical condition most people commonly call High Blood Pressure, affects millions of people in the United States. The…

Top 3 Patient Concerns with RPM

Top 3 Patient Concerns with RPM

Remote patient monitoring (RPM) has carved a niche within the healthcare sector, propelled by numerous benefits. Notably, RPM has been…

Innovating RPM: Medek RPM Review Queue

Innovating RPM: Medek RPM Review Queue

By Matt Furnari Medek’s Remote Patient Monitoring Review Queue is deceptively simple looking. It’s designed that way to make it…

The Medek Remote Patient Monitoring Billing Queue

The Medek Remote Patient Monitoring Billing Queue

By Matt Furnari Probably the most useful feature of the Medek RPM Doctor Portal is the billing queue. When new customers…

Why Medek RPM Devices Stand Out from the Competition

Why Medek RPM Devices Stand Out from the Competition

It’s not easy to meet both your patients’ needs and your practice’s needs. But one way to do it is…

Saving Lives: How Remote Patient Monitoring and Healthy Eating Habits Improved the Health of Firefighters

Saving Lives: How Remote Patient Monitoring and Healthy Eating Habits Improved the Health of Firefighters

Firefighters are often thought of as bold and courageous, risking their lives for others and coming to the aid of…

How to Empower Your Patients to Stay Involved in Their RPM Program

How to Empower Your Patients to Stay Involved in Their RPM Program

While convincing patients of the value of a Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) program is an accomplishment, it is often only…

Increasing Profitability While Providing High-Quality Chronic Care Management (CCM)

Increasing Profitability While Providing High-Quality Chronic Care Management (CCM)

Providing a high level of care for patients while also keeping your practice profitable is often a challenge that requires...

Remote Patient Monitoring as a Foundation for Effective Chronic Care Management

Remote Patient Monitoring as a Foundation for Effective Chronic Care Management

The many benefits of remote patient monitoring (RPM) are well-established.1 Hospital systems, physician groups, and rural health groups are adopting…

RPM for Hypertension: How Does it Work?

RPM for Hypertension: How Does it Work?

Many physicians’ practices are turning to remote patient monitoring (RPM), also called remote physiological monitoring, as a viable therapeutic strategy…

How to Involve Your Healthcare Team Using Remote Patient Monitoring

How to Involve Your Healthcare Team Using Remote Patient Monitoring

Patient loads for physicians have steadily increased during the past 15 to 20 years. Currently, they exceed what can be…

Effective Use of Remote Patient Monitoring Can Improve Skills in Personal Health Literacy

Effective Use of Remote Patient Monitoring Can Improve Skills in Personal Health Literacy

In 2020, the definition of “health literacy” was updated and adopted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)….

Using Remote Patient Monitoring to Increase Practice Revenue Without Bringing on New Patients

Using Remote Patient Monitoring to Increase Practice Revenue Without Bringing on New Patients

Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) may be one of the best defenses against the stubborn challenges of medical inflation. Other names…

Fighting Asthma And Overcoming It With RPM

Fighting Asthma And Overcoming It With RPM

Remote patient monitoring (RPM), also known as remote physiologic monitoring, is an excellent healthcare option for patients with numerous chronic…

How Can Remote Patient Monitoring Impact Continuity of Care

How Can Remote Patient Monitoring Impact Continuity of Care

Remote patient monitoring (RPM) adds one more layer to the patient-centered approach to continuity of care. Continuity of care is…

Chronic Care Management Gets Better Outcomes With Remote Patient Monitoring

Chronic Care Management Gets Better Outcomes With Remote Patient Monitoring

Fifty percent of the U.S. population requires Chronic Care Management (CCM), according to a 2020 report published in ACR Open…

8 Myths About Remote Patient Monitoring for Practices

8 Myths About Remote Patient Monitoring for Practices

Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) is a newer concept in the healthcare industry, so there are plenty of myths regarding this…

How Remote Patient Monitoring Affects Our Public Health

How Remote Patient Monitoring Affects Our Public Health

Before the pandemic, Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) seemed futuristic and costly. Now, COVID-19 opened the industry’s eyes to telehealth services…

The 2023 CMS Fee Schedule Could Affect Remote Patient Monitoring in Your Practice.

The 2023 CMS Fee Schedule Could Affect Remote Patient Monitoring in Your Practice.

The pandemic proved how essential telehealth services and Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) can be, and the ways Centers for Medicare…

The Evolution of RPM

The Evolution of RPM

In recent years, the number of patients that could use Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) was few. Since 2018, Remote Patient…

Straight Talk About RPM with Your Patients

Straight Talk About RPM with Your Patients

Whether you’re considering starting an Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) program, one of the most challenging parts is having a conversation…

Increasing Patient Compliance with Remote Patient Monitoring

Increasing Patient Compliance with Remote Patient Monitoring

Why Remote Patient Monitoring is Critical for Healthcare Providers? Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) provides a secure and efficient way for…

Remote Patient Monitoring in 2022

Remote Patient Monitoring in 2022

Introduction: Why RPM is Important With the many different healthcare technologies and RPM programs, achieving positive patient healthcare has never…

Top Remote Patient Monitoring Devices 2022

Top Remote Patient Monitoring Devices 2022

With Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) being the new trend many practices are using , knowing which devices are included in…

Remote Patient Monitoring Versus Telehealth. How are They Different?

Remote Patient Monitoring Versus Telehealth. How are They Different?

Telehealth vs. RPM: What’s the difference? When it comes to remote patient care, there are several branches of technology used…

What do Providers Need to Deliver RPM Services?

What do Providers Need to Deliver RPM Services?

Quite often, in many aspects of our lives, when we are approached with a new idea, concept, or service, we…

My Doctor has Recommended Connected Care. What Does That Mean?

My Doctor has Recommended Connected Care. What Does That Mean?

Recently, you were at your doctor’s office, and they mentioned something called Connected Care. They said they would like you…

RPM: The Ideal Candidate and the Difference it Makes

RPM: The Ideal Candidate and the Difference it Makes

Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) is a type of patient care that involves using technology to remotely monitor patients with no…

How does Remote Patient Monitoring Help Healthcare

How does Remote Patient Monitoring Help Healthcare

Remote Patient Monitoring is changing the way healthcare practitioners care for their patients. Healthcare providers often try new techniques and…

CPT® Codes: Back to Basics

CPT® Codes: Back to Basics

Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) sounds like a great concept, and you are very eager to add it to your patient…

Medicare Advantage’s Growth Provides New RPM Opportunities for Physicians

Medicare Advantage’s Growth Provides New RPM Opportunities for Physicians

In May, the Better Medicare Alliance released a study on the 2021 State of Medicare Advantage. As expected, the state…

CPT® Codes Explained for Your Practice – Part Five

CPT® Codes Explained for Your Practice – Part Five

CPT® CODE 99457 and 99458: Treating Chronic Conditions with RPM At the heart of any medical practice is treating patients….

CPT® Codes For RPM Explained to Help for Your Practice – Part Four

CPT® Codes For RPM Explained to Help for Your Practice – Part Four

CPT® CODE 99454: Remote Patient Monitoring review of data Your practice has chosen to develop your RPM and now your…

CPT® Codes For RPM Explained to Help for Your Practice – Part Three

CPT® Codes For RPM Explained to Help for Your Practice – Part Three

CPT® CODE 99453: Setting up Remote Patient Monitoring When the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services released the three key…

CPT® Codes For RPM Explained to Help for Your Practice – Part Two

CPT® Codes For RPM Explained to Help for Your Practice – Part Two

CPT® 99091: Encouraging the Use of Remote Patient Monitoring Shortly before the world shut down because of COVID-19, the Centers…

CPT® Codes For RPM Explained to Help Your Practice – Part One

CPT® Codes For RPM Explained to Help Your Practice – Part One

CPT® 99091: The start of Remote Patient Monitoring In 2018, when the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services unbundled CMS…

New Changes on Affecting How CMS Bills for RPM Remote Patient Monitoring – Part Two

New Changes on Affecting How CMS Bills for RPM Remote Patient Monitoring – Part Two

Every physician understands the challenges of working with CMS and their cost codes . Any slight error or miscoding can…

New Changes on Affecting How CMS Bills for RPM Remote Patient Monitoring – Part One

New Changes on Affecting How CMS Bills for RPM Remote Patient Monitoring – Part One

Let’s start with the first CPT® Code CMS approved for RPM for direct reimbursement, CPT® 99091. It began in 2018…

Reasons Why Every Practice Needs Remote Patient Monitoring

Reasons Why Every Practice Needs Remote Patient Monitoring

With the global pandemic, many businesses, including practices and clinics, had to adapt to new challenges and find new ways…

Better Cardiovascular Disease Outcomes with RPM

Better Cardiovascular Disease Outcomes with RPM

Why Use RPM for Cardiovascular Patients? According to the National Center for Health Statistics, 30.3 million adults in the US…

Getting Reimbursements For Using RPM

Getting Reimbursements For Using RPM

As a healthcare provider do you want to know – How to Use Remote Patient Monitoring and Get CMS Reimbursement?…

How Remote Patient Monitoring Is Changing Coordinated Care

How Remote Patient Monitoring Is Changing Coordinated Care

For both patients and healthcare providers, Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) has been a welcome addition for coordinated care. RPM provides…

Medicare Reimbursement for Remote Patient Monitoring

Medicare Reimbursement for Remote Patient Monitoring

The benefits of home care, telehealth and Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) have helped patients of all ages. However, the greatest…

What is CPT® Code 99457?

What is CPT® Code 99457?

Billing codes for RPM (Remote Patient Monitoring) were needed. This would help healthcare providers to use RPM. On January 1,…

Chronic Disease Management with Remote Patient Monitoring

Chronic Disease Management with Remote Patient Monitoring

5 ways that Remote Patient Monitoring helps to manage chronic diseases Healthcare Providers are looking for ways to improve chronic…

CPT® Codes for Remote Patient Monitoring

CPT® Codes for Remote Patient Monitoring

Recent Changes in CPT® Coding For Remote Patient Monitoring For over fifty years, the American Medical Association (AMA) has had…

Why Investing in Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) Solutions Makes Sense

Why Investing in Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) Solutions Makes Sense

Make no mistake, Healthcare providers are investing in Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) solutions. Beginning in 2020, changes to RPM CPT®…

A.I. (artificial intelligence for medical consultation telemedicine ) Won’t Replace Doctors

A.I. (artificial intelligence for medical consultation telemedicine ) Won’t Replace Doctors

A.I.(artificial intelligence for medical consultation, telemedicine ) Won’t Replace Doctors*, But Will Doctors* That Don’t Embrace A.I. Replace be Replaced By Those Who Do? This interesting

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