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. 2023 May 1:11:e46046.
doi: 10.2196/46046.

Uptake of Remote Physiologic Monitoring in the US Medicare Program: A Serial Cross-sectional Analysis

Jeffrey R Curtis  1 , James Willig  2
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Uptake of Remote Physiologic Monitoring in the US Medicare Program: A Serial Cross-sectional Analysis

Jeffrey R Curtis et al. JMIR Mhealth Uhealth. .
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Keywords: Medicare; cost; digital health; economic; health coverage; insurance; mHealth; mobile health; mobile technology; outpatient; patient monitoring; payment; remote monitoring; remote patient monitoring; remote therapeutic monitoring.

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Conflict of interest statement

Conflicts of Interest: JRC receives consulting fees from and owns stock in TNacity Blue Ocean. JRC is a part-time employee of Illumination Health (a health care research organization). JW has no conflicts of interest.

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Medicare payments for remote patient monitoring services, 2019-2021.
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