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 cardiovascular risk, targeting a systolic blood pressure of less than 120 mm Hg resulted in lower rates of … Continue reading Lower is Better

CCM Pays

Lower is Better

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 Qardio. Send your CCM and RPM questions to mark(at)vaughanmd.com. Emails may not … Continue reading More Healthmote Experience

More Healthmote Experience

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 and features of the Healthmote Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) system. I also give … Continue reading Healthmote RPM

Healthmote RPM

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.

Medicare 2021 RPM Update

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 to use the Qardio Arm. It also has some innovative time-saving features included in … Continue reading ForaCare D40g

ForaCare D40g

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 to better manage hypertensive patients and increase practice revenue by at least the … Continue reading RPM Support

RPM Support

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 be addressed between office visits. The other way to help … Continue reading Medical Assistant Motivation

Medical Assistant Motivation

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 care physicians to set up CCM for monthly services with patients without the patient having to … Continue reading COVID-19 and CCM

COVID-19 and CCM

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 “Terms and Conditions” while creating new account, so we had to create the account … Continue reading CCMarch

CCMarch

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 form for RPM. Use our template for tracking both CCM and RPM with Google Sheets. Be sure … Continue reading Remote Patient Monitoring Now

Remote Patient Monitoring Now

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

Remote Patient Monitoring

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 Medicare patients with chronic illness and get the revenue intended to be used for this purpose. Google Sheets template … Continue reading DIY CCM

DIY CCM

Helping medical providers implement Chronic Care Management in their own offices