The federal government’s call for more oversight of remote patient monitoring (RPM) programs isn’t sitting well with digital health advocates. Following a report this week from the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) hinting at a possibility of fraud in requests for Medicare reimbursement in RPM programs, the Alliance for Connected Care has criticized the “inaccuracies and subjective nature” of that report and called on the OIG to retract it. RPM is one of the fastest growing programs in the country, popular with health systems and hospitals looking to monitor patients outside the hospital, clinic or doctor’s office.
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