From Medsien

The shortage of doctors/providers in rural areas (shortage of clinics in these areas too) is profound. Shortages are even worse for specialists and sub-specialty care in these settings. Many Medicare patients require complex, specialty care in addition to well managed primary care for chronic conditions.

New year, time for a new approach It’s time to plan for 2024. Are you ready to introduce seamless, scalable remote care management and monitoring into your practice?

For most health organizations right now, teams are already understaffed, overworked, and overstressed - and each great new idea or new program or project or innovation that is suggested or required of clinical providers - adds more work for their team

Medical practices today are providing excellent health care to their patients under really challenging circumstances. It is harder and harder for practices sometimes to have sufficient staff, systems and support to do everything they want to do.

Today, scalable remote care management is an essential part of medical practices’ growth, improving health outcomes for patients, increasing satisfaction for providers, reaching and caring for more patients - and is key to staying competitive.

‍Remote care management programs use technology to facilitate clinically driven, remote monitoring, care and education of patients and are essential to effective health management - in particular for managing patients with chronic disease.

No one wants to be audited, but if your practice is audited – you want to be ready. Readiness requires you to have good, accurate data – that’s easily available.

Loneliness is a serious epidemic and major public health problem impacting individuals and communities in the United States and around the globe.

Clinician burnout is a real threat to the stability of the healthcare system. Staffing shortages are the primary reason – and that has worsened considerably since COVID.

Robust remote care management programs help practices provide the highest quality of care resulting in better outcomes and reduced costs.

In 2022, CMS introduced a new category of digital health services - Remote Therapeutic Monitoring (RTM) - to complement the existing suite of Remote Patient Monitoring codes covered under Medicare.

CMS reimburses for Principal Care Management (PCM) services provided to beneficiaries with a single chronic condition needing to stabilize that condition following exacerbation or hospitalization.