Medicare Delays RPM Ban to 2029, Opens Advocacy Window — SkimNews
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- Medicare regulators advanced a controversial plan to bar hospitals and other providers from using third parties to deliver remote patient monitoring services.
- Medicare regulators delayed implementation of the overhaul to 2029, with the two-year reprieve aimed at giving providers time to build in-house remote patient monitoring services.
- The Medicare plan drew what the source describes as overwhelming opposition from health tech companies, hospitals, insurers and specialty organizations.
- Remote Monitoring Leadership Council, a group of leading remote-monitoring vendors, is among the stakeholders using the two-year delay to press for a different plan.
- Christopher Adamec said stakeholders have “two years to come up with something better” and named a value-based payment pathway, guardrails or another alternative as his mission.
Why it matters: For outside RPM vendors, the ban remains the central risk, while the two-year delay gives hospitals, insurers and technology firms time to press for value-based payment rules or guardrails. Providers also receive until 2029 to build in-house services, turning the immediate confrontation into a longer transition.
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