RPM patients need to take measurements 16 days per month. Following The Formula can help your RPM coordinator keep patients on track throughout the month so you don’t end up with too few days. I have daily calls made to any patients who do not

Increased CCM Payments

Jun 25th, 2022 5m 29s

Medicare raised CCM payments in 2022. Medicare now pays $58 – $83 monthly per completed CCM service (99490). Buy your CCM templates NOW! Medicare has posted a booklet with more details. Medicare Physician Fee Schedule

Qardio Cellular

Nov 24th, 2021 5m 59s

Qardio has come back with a cellular blood pressure monitor option. This is worth look at for blood pressure Remote Patient Monitoring.

Lower is Better

Jul 1st, 2021 12m 59s

Dr Tom Frieden, former director of CDC, referred to the Final Report of a Trial of Intensive versus Standard Blood-Pressure Control, published in May in the New England Journal of Medicine. Conclusions:”Among patients who were at increased card

More Healthmote Experience

Apr 14th, 2021 13m 54s

Healthmote continues to lend itself to a growth of patients using RPM. It is easier to set up than Qardio, and we have found that easily more than twice the number of Medicare patients can use the simple one-button Healthmote device compared to

Healthmote RPM

Feb 17th, 2021 8m 54s

I am excited to tell you about both of our new sponsors. You can learn more about their products by clicking on the Foracare and Healthmote links. Foracare is covered in an earlier dedicated episode. Most of this episode describes the benefits

Medicare 2021 RPM Update

Dec 7th, 2020 4m 3s

Link to Official CMS Policy There are a couple updates to RPM rules which provide significant clarification to time necessary for RPM monthly management and the nature of communication satisfying the “interactive communication” requirement.

ForaCare D40g

Oct 27th, 2020 12m 23s

I am sharing my initial thoughts on the ForaCare D40g cellular (3G) BP monitor and glucometer. It is ideally suited for Remote Patient Monitoring. It eliminates the need for patients to have or operate a bluetooth mobile device, as is required

RPM Support

Jul 30th, 2020 4m 7s

Qardio Support Welcome to the mid-Summer CCM Pays podcast for 2020. I’d like to focus again on aspects of providing Remote Patient Monitoring services. By the way, if you are doing CCM without RPM, you are missing out on a great opportunity t

Medical Assistant Motivation

Jun 13th, 2020 5m 30s

This month I wanted to give a couple aspects to consider in motivating your MA to keep doing CCM. Remind them of the great results CCM gets in patients with chronic conditions. Be sure to congratulate them when the pick up things that need to b

COVID-19 and CCM

Apr 1st, 2020 7m 18s

CCM (Chronic Care Management) and RPM (Remote Patient Monitoring) can both be done during COVID-19. This podcast explains that new CMS announcments confirm that the set-up code (G0506) for CCM can be done over the telephone. This allows primary

CCMarch

Mar 8th, 2019 11m 18s

We review lessons learned installing the Qardio app on patients’ mobile devices and the latest pricing of Qardio on Amazon. Review RPM Lessons Learned Dates on Android: (tap on “Year”) to change year iPad Mini did not show option to review “Ter

Remote Patient Monitoring Now

Feb 9th, 2019 13m 59s

Dr. Mark Vaughan, Cristina, and Ian describe lessons learned in the first month of setting up Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) using the QardioArm wireless blood pressure monitor. An update on January CCM is also discussed. Download our consent

Remote Patient Monitoring

Jan 11th, 2019 15m 30s

RPM CPT Codes and Reimbursement: 99453 Set Up $21 99454 Supply Device $69 99457 Interactive Communication $54 Visit Qardio or Omron Link for Google Sheets Spreadsheet Template For more information, see Healthcare Law Today

DIY CCM

Dec 11th, 2018 23m 19s

This podcast is intended for physicians’ offices who would like to hear about our experience starting our own chronic care management (CCM) program with great success. Learn from our successes and mistakes to improve the health of your Medicar

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