CMS Remote Monitoring Proposal Threatens to Sever Medicare Beneficiaries’ Access to Essential, Technology-Enabled Care

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) proposed sweeping changes to Medicare remote physiologic monitoring (RPM) and remote therapeutic monitoring (RTM) that, if finalized, will dismantle established programs and disrupt care for patients who rely on them across the nation.

The Alliance for Connected Care is mobilizing an all-hands-on-deck national advocacy effort throughout the public comment period to protect patient access, preserve responsible innovation, and ensure CMS understands the real-world impact of its proposals on remote monitoring programs. Our goal is to ensure CMS does not finalize these proposals as written.

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Calling All Small Businesses

The Small Business Administration Office of Advocacy is seeking input from small, independent, and/or rural physician practices on the economic impact of the remote monitoring proposal.   They would like to hear about the economic impact that the proposed rule’s staffing restrictions may have on independent physician practitioners, including effects on practice viability, staffing models, and the ability to maintain or expand RPM/RTM programs.  How partnerships with contracted clinical staff currently function in practice, including safeguards such as physician‑approved protocols, continuity of care arrangements, business associate agreements, and audit controls.  Please send your economic impact data related to the proposed rule to redtape@sba.gov before September 4.

The Office of Advocacy is an independent federal office that represent the interests of small entities in the federal rulemaking process and to ensure that agencies consider the economic impact of their regulations on small businesses, small nonprofit organizations, and small governmental jurisdictions.