ATA, ACC To Novitas: Amend RPM MAC Meeting Procedures, Include Missing Literature

Key telehealth lobbying groups wrote to Novitas Solutions Tuesday (Feb. 22) raising concerns that a high-profile Medicare Administrative Contractor meeting next week on remote patient monitoring leaves out key studies and limits debate on topics that are key to future Medicare coverage policy. If Novitas does not amend the meeting literature and process, they say, a local coverage determination could emerge that includes only cardiac devices and excludes other remote physiologic monitoring and remote therapeutic monitoring services. They ask Novitas...