OIG report urges monitoring of remote patient monitoring
By HME News Staff
Updated 12:13 PM CDT, Tue September 2, 2025
WASHINGTON – The use of remote patient monitoring continued to grow in 2024, with Medicare payments exceeding $500 million, according to a new report from the HHS Office of Inspector General.
Other key takeaways from the report:
- Monitoring billing can help safeguard the Medicare program and prevent fraud, waste and abuse.
- Billing that may warrant further scrutiny includes billing for a high proportion of enrollees who have no prior history with the medical practice and billing for multiple monitoring devices a month for an enrollee.
- Analyzing billing can help CMS, Medicare Advantage organizations and other entities ensure enrollees receive the benefit of RPM while minimizing program integrity risks.
The OIG put together the report because it previously found that the use of RPM in Medicare has the potential to greatly expand in the future and that additional oversight of RPM is needed.
Nearly 1 million Medicare enrollees received RPM in 2024, according to the agency.
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