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From Informatics MD: “Re: UnitedHealthcare. Changing its payment policy to eliminate coverage of remote patient monitoring in most emerging uses. This is likely to have an adverse effect on future development and growth of evidence.” The insurer says that starting January 1, 2026, it will cover RPM only for heart failure and hypertensive disorders of pregnancy.
Googling “remote patient monitoring + insurance” lists a lot of RPM companies whose business model of being paid by a cut of increased provider billings just went poof.
The insurer says that evidence is lacking for conditions such as COPD, depression, and diabetes, and with revenue for those services dropping to zero, nobody will spend the money to generate new evidence.
One might also call out providers who were happy to bill for RPM but paid no attention to the alerts it generated, adding zero value except to their wallets. Patients might as well buy a smart watch and monitor themselves.
Reader Comments
From Dirk Dongler: “Re: the CarPlay dongle you bought for $16.99. It’s now $29.99. You are driving markets, like NYT Wirecutter or Kim Kardashian!” Tip: ask Amazon’s Rufus AI chatbot on the item’s page to “show price history.” Not only will it provide a graph of the item’s historical pricing from this seller, you can also ask it to compare the item with similar ones, where it will display a table and a summary of “Best Value” and “Most Reviews.”
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Speaking of SlicedHealth, the company just announced SlicedIQ, an AI-powered revenue cycle optimization platform for rural hospitals. I noticed from the announcement that industry veteran and pharmacist Reed Liggin, MBA (McKesson, RazorInsights, Athenahealth, and EasyScripts Technology) is co-founder and CEO of the company.
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Acquisitions, Funding, Business, and Stock
Virtual healthcare company LifeMD, which just made headlines for selling its WorkSimpli document management platform, delays its Q3 earnings report as it corrects prior revenue recognition issues.
CareCloud reports Q3 results: revenue up 9%, EPS $0.07 versus –$0.28, meeting earnings expectations and beating on revenue. Shares jumped 20% on the news, valuing the company at $125 million.
Huron acquires the payer consulting services division of Axiom Systems.
Sales
- Mount Sinai Health System will implement Microsoft’s Dragon Copilot for ambient documentation.
Announcements and Implementations
The American Red Cross releases a resuscitation app that provides access to code and reference cards, protocol cards for all of its life support programs, compression and drug timers, and real-time documentation forms.
Other
Former health tech executive Chris Klomp tells Politico that he took his current job of running Medicare for CMS because he felt guilty for making a lot of money as a health tech entrepreneur. He adds that even though he founded Collective Medical to coordinate care and then sold it to PointClickCare for $650 million in December 2020, he found when he moved to DC that getting his kids’ medical records to their new pediatrician “involved fax machines and paper releases, and my wife sat and said, ‘Wait a minute, I thought you built a company that, like, fixed this whole interoperability thing.’”
Sponsor Updates
- Fortified Health Security launches its Incident Response Program Module within its Central Command platform to ensure organizations can access their complete incident response resources directly from mobile devices even when networks are down.
- Infinx will sponsor, present, and exhibit at the HIMSS Iowa Fall 2025 Conference November 12-13 in Altoona.
- Navina offers a free, three-day online course on value-based care that begins November 18.
Blog Posts
- 5 PACS Strategy Questions CIOs Should Ask (Optimum Healthcare IT)
- Data maturity is a muscle, not a milestone (Cardamom)
- Digital health platforms can set standards for value-based care by redefining clinical decision support (Wolters Kluwer Health)
- It’s a dangerous world for data: Defining security in 2025 (Altera Digital Health)
- Northern California Social Care Summit: Highlights from the Golden State (Findhelp)
- MEDITECH partners with Puerto Rico Children’s Hospital to advance pediatric oncology care (Meditech)
- Forget Add-On AI. Welcome to the AI-Native Contact Center (Five9)
- How to Make Third-Party Risk Manageable (Fortified Health Security)
- Aligning Operational Transformation with Implementation: Turning Vision into Value (Impact Advisors)
- How Compliance Drives Trust and Scalability in Healthcare: A Q&A with MRO’s Compliance Leadership (MRO)
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