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Policy Priorities

Remote care policy should make it easier to deliver clinically appropriate care at home while protecting patients, taxpayers, and providers from unclear rules and low-value utilization.

1. Make remote care durable

Patients and clinicians need stable rules for telehealth and remote monitoring. Temporary policy extensions can preserve access, but long-term adoption requires clear statutory and regulatory footing.

2. Support monitoring for chronic and acute needs

Remote patient monitoring can support hypertension, heart failure, diabetes, respiratory disease, post-discharge care, and other conditions when the data is clinically meaningful and acted on by the care team.

3. Build accountability into payment

Coverage should be paired with patient consent, medical necessity, documentation, device and data standards, and oversight that detects billing patterns inconsistent with patient care.

4. Close access gaps

Remote care policy should address rural access, broadband limitations, older adults, disability access, language needs, and patients who need help using devices or digital platforms.

5. Connect remote care to broader models

Remote monitoring and telehealth work best when they are integrated into primary care, specialty care, home health, accountable care, chronic care management, and hospital-at-home models.
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