Remote Patient Monitoring News and Resources for Healthcare

Trends in Medicare Advantage 2022 Open Enrollment Offerings

November 10, 2021 - Medicare Advantage has seen a lot of growth in recent years and that trend is set to continue into 2022, as evident in the number of plan offerings for the Medicare Advantage 2022 open enrollment season, according to a Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF) issue brief. “As Medicare Advantage enrollment continues to grow, insurers seem to be...

Humana Type 2 Diabetes Reversal Program Leverages RPM, Nutrition

November 09, 2021 by Kelsey Waddill

Updated 11/9/2021: This article has been updated to say that patients who lost weight due to the program lost on average 12 percent of their weight. A previous version stated that 12 percent of...

How Payers Can Use Remote Patient Monitoring to Advance Care

June 21, 2021 by Wellframe

Providers and patients have come to realize the benefits of telehealth following a year in which in-person care was highly limited if not impossible to access. That said, one form of telehealth has...

How MA Plans Can Build on COVID-19 Home Healthcare Strategies

May 26, 2021 by Kelsey Waddill

After a year of accelerating home healthcare services, payers can build on their coronavirus home healthcare strategies to bolster their home healthcare programs more permanently. Hospital...

3 Common Telehealth Technologies that Payers Cover, Leverage

October 02, 2020 by Kelsey Waddill

Phone calls, secure direct messaging, and remote patient monitoring are the three leading modalities that form the backbone of payer telehealth technologies. According to the Centers for Disease...

Payer Strategies For Home Healthcare, Remote Patient Monitoring

September 25, 2020 by Kelsey Waddill

Home healthcare and remote monitoring are increasingly critical to providing value-based care, improving quality while keeping costs low. Experts have discovered that, in some cases, remote patient...

How to Manage Chronic Disease Through Technology, Member Trust

July 17, 2020 by Kelsey Waddill

Payers expend billions every year on type 2 diabetes in the US, but the programs that are intended to help members manage chronic disease are not working, charged Amy Meister, DO, chief executive...

Apple Floats Idea of Subsidizing Watches for Medicare Advantage

January 17, 2019 by Jennifer Bresnick

Apple has approached several Medicare Advantage plan providers to discuss the idea of subsidizing its Apple Watch for at-risk seniors, according to industry reports. CNBC reporter Christina Farr...

PwC: Digital Experiences, High Costs Will Challenge Payers in 2019

December 12, 2018 by Jennifer Bresnick

Healthcare payers that hope to succeed in 2019’s competitive business environment will need to meet the strong demand for more consumer-centered digital experiences that help members control...

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