RPM Patient FAQs
Remote patient monitoring, or RPM, uses digital technology to gather and transmit data such as your blood pressure, weight, or blood sugar. You simply take the readings in the comfort of your home and the device does the rest.
RPM provides your doctor with real-time information on your daily readings and trends over time. This information helps your provider better understand, treat, and track your progress in meeting health improvement goals.
The device is shipped directly to your home. Once it arrives, OsiLIFE’s team of experienced care managers will talk you through device set-up and use to ensure you are ready.
It is recommended that you use the device daily to optimize the information your doctor receives. OsiLIFE will check in with you routinely to remind you, discuss your readings, and listen to your care concerns.
The remote monitoring device is provided for your use at home at no or minimal cost to you and comes with the support of the OsiLIFE care team who are just a phone call away.
Remote patient monitoring can help you with weight control, diabetes management, blood pressure monitoring and medication management. If you are interested in this service, feel free to discuss it with your doctor. Your provider can determine if RPM would be beneficial in managing your care and work with OsiLIFE to get you started.
RPM Provider FAQs
Remote patient monitoring, or RPM, uses digital technology to gather and transmit patient data such as blood pressure, weight, or blood sugar. OsiLIFE provides the patient with your assigned sensor device. The patient simply takes the readings in the comfort of their home, and OsiLIFE’s experienced care team provides you with the patient information you want to see.
RPM provides you with your patient’s daily readings. The OsiLIFE care team monitors for patient compliance and triages readings that may indicate risk as defined by you. The information from RPM will help you better understand, treat, and track your patient’s progress in meeting health improvement goals.
You decide which of your patients can benefit from proactive remote monitoring and OsiLIFE’s human touch. RPM can help you track patients with weight control issues, diabetes, and blood pressure concerns. RPM can also assist with patient medication adherence. OsiLIFE will help you get started with educational materials, staff training, and device management.
The device assigned by you and provided by OsiLIFE transmits real-time sensor data to OsiLIFE’s tracking platform. An OsiLIFE team of experienced care managers perform daily reviews of the data, speak one-on-one with patients, address non-compliance, and send alerts to you if care concerns arise based on your guidelines.
CMS has issued a fee schedule specific to RPM. It covers device set-up, daily monitoring, and patient communication up to 40 minutes per month. Many private payors cover RPM as well. OsiLIFE captures RPM reimbursable activity and provides timely reporting to make billing easy.
You manage your patient’s care, and OsiLIFE works with you to design your RPM program to support your care management objectives for your targeted patient populations. OsiLIFE’s human touch serves as an extension of your trust relationship with your patients.
CCM Provider FAQs
Chronic Care Management (CCM) assists patients with managing chronic conditions, such as diabetes, hypertension, heart disease, COPD, anxiety, depression, and others, through remote care services. OsiLIFE’s experienced care team works within your comprehensive care plan and established health improvement goals via scheduled periodic phone calls with your patient utilizing risk-measuring diagnostic surveys and monitoring medication adherence.
CCM is a critical component of your patient’s care and focuses on better health outcomes, decreased risks of ER visits and reduced hospitalizations. OsiLIFE supports your CCM program by reviewing data discovered through remote activities and patient interactions. OsiLIFE converts this data into summary triage information based on your guidance so that you may better understand, treat, and track your patient’s progress in managing chronic conditions.
You decide which of your patients can benefit from your CCM program. OsiLIFE can assist you in identifying patient profiles for CCM services. OsiLIFE’s human touch services are an extension of your practice and enable additional patient coverage for you without added burden. OsiLIFE assists you with the CCM program design, educational materials, staff training, and workflows that fit within your clinical operations.
OsiLIFE’s experienced care team works under your general supervision while performing risk-assessing triage. You provide the overall patient care guidance and clinical communication preferences. OsiLIFE builds upon your patient’s trust relationship with you when speaking one-on-one with patients to address your care plan concerns. The triage information provides an information trail where you always know how your patient population is doing.
CMS, and many private payors, have issued a fee schedule specific to remote CCM covering monthly physician and staff time, including qualified third-party staff, for monitoring services, data interpretation, and patient interaction. OsiLIFE’s care team qualifies for remote CCM services, and OsiLIFE provides you with monthly reporting of CCM activity for easy monthly submission of reimbursement claims.
You manage your patient’s care. OsiLIFE’s human touch remote services facilitate your care plan for your patient. OsiLIFE works with clinical teams to design, implement and sustain a provider CCM program that supports your objectives for your patients.