Industry Presents Scaled-Down Remote-Monitoring Legislation
This article was originally published in The Gray Sheet
Executive Summary
AdvaMed has given the Senate Finance Committee a scaled-down version of legislation to promote remote-monitoring devices that it hopes will be included in a Medicare package being shaped in Congress this year
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Remote monitoring bill
Rep. Anna Eshoo, D-Calif., introduces April 10 legislation requiring CMS to reimburse doctors for time spent analyzing data sent remotely from patient devices. The Medicare Remote Monitoring Access Act (1H.R. 5765) would cover remote patient management services for heart failure and cardiac arrhythmia, effective on Jan. 1, 2010. A two-year, three-site demonstration project would evaluate the impact and benefits of covering remote monitoring of beneficiaries with diabetes, epilepsy and sleep apnea devices, the bill says (2"The Gray Sheet" Nov. 5, 2007, p. 5)