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UnitedHealth Group, CVS Health, and Kaiser Permanente have written letters opposing a Medicare proposal that would require remote patient monitoring services to be delivered directly by the billing provider's employees rather than by third-party vendors.

What is a key fact in this story? (1)

**Medicare** proposed requiring remote patient monitoring (RPM) services to be rendered directly by employees of the provider billing for the service, part of an effort to rein in RPM spending under existing billing codes.

What is a key fact in this story? (2)

**UnitedHealth Group**, **CVS Health**, and **Kaiser Permanente** all submitted letters opposing the proposal — a response the source characterizes as "surprising" pushback from insurers, who typically align with cost-containment efforts.

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Medicare proposed requiring remote patient monitoring (RPM) services to be rendered directly by employees of the provider billing for the service, part of an effort to rein in RPM spending under existing billing codes.
UnitedHealth Group, CVS Health, and Kaiser Permanente all submitted letters opposing the proposal — a response the source characterizes as "surprising" pushback from insurers, who typically align with cost-containment efforts.
Under current rules, Medicare pays providers to track patient health using connected devices such as blood pressure cuffs, with the bulk of RPM services delivered by vendors working under the supervision of the billing providers.
The dispute centers on a structural shift: the proposal would effectively end the third-party vendor delivery model that currently dominates RPM, transferring service delivery back to the billing provider's own staff.
The story is reported as a new exclusive by a STAT reporter and is available only to STAT+ subscribers.

Why it matters: The proposal would end the vendor-supervised RPM delivery model that currently dominates the space, redirecting services from third-party vendors and insurer-owned RPM businesses back to billing providers themselves — a structural shift affecting programs that pay providers for connected-device monitoring using tools like blood pressure cuffs.