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Blog|Articles|October 6, 2026
Medicare wants your remote monitoring staff on your payroll
Author(s)Keith A. Reynolds
Fact checked by: Chris Mazzolini
A 2027 Medicare proposal would stop paying for RPM time logged by vendor staff and cut device payments. Our handbook walks through what to do.
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A practice that pays a vendor to watch its patients' blood pressure readings may be billing Medicare for minutes logged by nurses it has never met. Under a proposal in the 2027 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule, those minutes would stop counting on Jan. 1.
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