Practical writing on remote patient monitoring, chronic care management, and the workflows that make connected care work — for the teams who run these programs every day.
CMS's ACCESS Model launched July 5, 2026 — a 10-year Medicare experiment that pays for chronic-care outcomes achieved through technology-enabled monitoring at home. Here's how it works, and what it signals for home health agencies.
Aug 28, 2026
Where AI genuinely takes administrative load off a home health team — patient questions, cohort searches, routine outreach, and escalation routing — and the clinical lines it should never cross.
Aug 5, 2026
The CY2027 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule proposed rule would require in-house staffing, an initiating visit, and lower device payments for RPM — here's what's proposed, and what it means for Texas Medicaid agencies.
Aug 5, 2026
The CY2026 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule finally breaks the 16-day rule with new short-duration RPM codes — here's what changed, and what it signals for Texas Medicaid agencies.
Jul 3, 2026
A plain-language look at the S9110 code for Texas Medicaid remote patient monitoring, the U1–U9 modifiers, and why reading-day and time tracking matter for clean claims.
Mar 5, 2026
How an AI companion can boost patient engagement without giving clinical advice — safe-zone questions versus triage, holding questions for review, and deterministic safety boundaries.
Feb 24, 2026
The fundamentals of chronic care management — eligibility, 24/7 access, consent, and how time-based billing codes fit together at a high level.
Feb 3, 2026
A plain-language explainer on remote patient monitoring — the devices, the reading-day idea, who benefits, and how RemoteCares streamlines the day-to-day work.
Jan 14, 2026