Report Calls For Proactive Reimbursement Policy On Remote Monitoring
This article was originally published in The Gray Sheet
Executive Summary
By investing $1,000 per patient, or $10.1 billion per year, to promote telemonitoring of chronically ill patients, health care payers could lower annual health care costs in the U.S. by $22.2 billion, according to estimates by Kauffman Foundation economist Robert E. Litan
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