Protect Access to Remote Monitoring
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) proposed sweeping changes to Medicare remote physiologic monitoring (RPM) and remote therapeutic monitoring (RTM). If finalized, these policies could disrupt established care models and reduce access for patients who rely on remote monitoring.
The Alliance for Connected Care is concerned that these proposals could undermine remote monitoring programs that help patients manage chronic conditions, support earlier intervention, and expand access to care, especially in rural and underserved communities.
The comment period may be over, but stakeholder engagement remains critical as CMS considers the final rule.
What You Can Do
Policymakers need to understand what changes to Medicare remote monitoring would mean in practice. Patients, caregivers, clinicians, health systems, rural providers, and other stakeholders can help bring the real-world impact of remote monitoring into the policy conversation.
Share Your Perspective With Congress
Contact your senators and representative to explain how remote monitoring is being used in your community and what changes to Medicare policy could mean for patients and providers.
Consider sharing:
- How remote monitoring fits into patient care today
- What patients would experience if an existing program had to be reduced or redesigned
- How your organization staffs and operates remote monitoring programs
- The role of technology and clinical partners in extending limited workforce capacity
- Why remote monitoring is particularly important for rural, medically underserved, or high-risk populations
Specific examples and local data can help policymakers understand how federal policy decisions translate into patient care.
Engage Your Local Press
Remote monitoring is not just a federal policy issue. Its impact is felt in communities across the country.
Consider reaching out to local health care reporters, newspapers, television stations, newsletters, and other media to explain how remote monitoring is being used by patients and providers in your state.
Local perspectives can help illustrate:
- How patients use remote monitoring to stay connected to their care teams
- How rural providers use technology to extend limited clinical resources
- How hospitals and physician practices are building remote care programs
- How federal policy changes could affect investments already underway in your state
The Alliance can provide background information and resources to support stakeholder engagement with the media.
Elevate Patient and Provider Stories
The strongest examples of remote monitoring come from the people using it.
We want to hear from patients, caregivers, clinicians, hospitals, physician practices, and other organizations about what remote monitoring looks like in the real world.
Useful stories might include:
- A patient whose care team identified a health problem before it became an emergency
- A rural patient who avoided a long trip for routine monitoring
- A clinician who uses remotely collected information to manage chronic disease between visits
- A hospital or practice that relies on specialized partners to operate an effective monitoring program
- A provider using remote monitoring to extend scarce clinical workforce resources
Stories may help inform policymakers, stakeholder education, and future Alliance advocacy.
Key Resources for Stakeholders
Explore key materials to help inform conversations with policymakers, the press, patients, providers, and community stakeholders.
Resources for Stakeholders
Use these materials to support conversations with policymakers, patients, providers, community leaders, and the media.
The Alliance analyzed state Rural Health Transformation Program plans and procurement activity to understand how states are investing in remote monitoring and other technology-enabled care.
The analysis found that 22 states have announced or awarded approximately $240 million specifically for remote monitoring, while 35 states have identified more than $2.4 billion in broader funding opportunities that may support remote monitoring.
The report highlights the growing role of remote monitoring in state strategies to address rural workforce shortages, improve access to care, and build sustainable technology-enabled models.
Patient organizations, hospitals and health systems, clinician organizations, technology groups, and other stakeholders joined a national letter regarding CMS’s proposed CY 2027 remote monitoring policies.
The letter highlights concerns about patient disruption and urges CMS to preserve flexible remote monitoring models while pursuing appropriate program integrity safeguards.
The Alliance’s formal comments provide detailed analysis of CMS’s proposed remote monitoring policies, including changes related to clinical staffing, initiating visits, reimbursement, program integrity, and technology-enabled care.
The Alliance recommends that CMS not finalize the remote monitoring proposals as written and instead work with stakeholders on approaches that preserve beneficiary access while addressing fraud, waste, and abuse.
Organizations across the health care community submitted public comments describing how remote monitoring works in practice and raising concerns about the potential effects of CMS’s proposals.
This resource highlights excerpts from public comments submitted by stakeholders across the health care community, illustrating broad concern about the potential impact of CMS’s proposed remote monitoring policies.
The Policy Conversation Continues
CMS will now review stakeholder feedback as it develops the CY 2027 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule final rule.
In the months ahead, the Alliance will continue evalavating stakeholder perspectives, patient and provider stories, state-level information, and policy resources related to remote monitoring.
Have a story, data point, or resource that policymakers should understand? We want to hear from you.