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Remote patient monitoring allows providers to track and manage their patients’ health from afar.

While remote patient monitoring was only modestly implemented before the pandemic, early in the COVID-19 public health emergency Medicare and commercial payers made changes to encourage the use of remote patient monitoring.

In the wake of these changes, Mitchell Tang and colleagues illuminate how health care providers have responded and how patients use remote patient monitoring services.

Tang and colleagues determine that the use of general remote patient monitoring increased more than fourfold during the COVID-19 pandemic, with a small share of primary care providers driving most of the use.

They estimate that full deployment of remote patient monitoring could generate $175,000 in revenue per primary care provider per year.

“The growth rates and persistence patterns observed in our analysis indicate that total spending on remote patient monitoring could quickly escalate,” Tang and colleagues note.

Authors Mitchell Tang and Ateev Mehrotra will join us for a detailed discussion of the paper’s data, methods, and policy conclusions on September 15 as part of our Journal Club event for Health Affairs Insiders.

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