The Remote Monitoring Leadership Council welcomed the opportunity to inform the Committee about how connected health technologies can generate and leverage data to deliver meaningful results for patients and providers in value-based payment arrangements.
Since 2019, RPM has shown strong clinical outcomes for many Medicare beneficiaries in need of interventions to prevent unnecessary and costly emergency department (ED) and hospitalization episodes. Patients, practitioners, and health payers see the value in broad adoption of these services to revolutionize chronic care management.
As an example of the clinical and cost-saving potential of RPM, one of our members recently completed a cost and utilization analysis, which included 5,872 patients enrolled in an RPM program compared against 11,449 patients in a propensity-score matched control group. The RPM program resulted in annual total savings of $1,308 per patient across three chronic disease programs (heart failure, hypertension, and type 2 diabetes). Cost savings were primarily driven by a 27% reduction in hospital admissions – specifically, reductions in hospitalizations for heart failure and stroke.
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