HealthAffairs: Remote Physiologic Monitoring Use Among Medicaid Population Increased, 2019–21

HealthAffairs: Remote Physiologic Monitoring Use Among Medicaid Population Increased, 2019–21

Remote physiologic monitoring use increased more than 1,300 percent from 2019 to 2021, and use varied by state. Remote physiologic monitoring facilitates the use of technologies, including wearable devices and mobile applications, to transmit health data such as heart rate, blood pressure, and blood oxygen levels directly to providers. Asynchronous remote monitoring may be particularly beneficial to patients who are at high risk for complex medical problems, who have significant barriers to accessing in-person care, or who have greater disease burden. The findings suggest that states with documented remote physiologic monitoring coverage policies had higher rates of use suggests that providers may be more willing and able to provide remote physiologic monitoring services to Medicaid beneficiaries in states with clear coverage policies or that states adopted coverage policies in response to high rates of use.