HealthArc's RTM platform helps physical therapists, pulmonologists, and behavioral health providers remotely track therapy adherence, patient-reported outcomes, and device-generated data, with CMS-compliant workflows built in. Run musculoskeletal, respiratory, and cognitive behavioral health RTM programs on a single platform, without adding administrative burden to your care team.
Remote therapeutic monitoring (RTM) is a CMS-recognized care delivery model that allows qualified healthcare providers to remotely collect and review non-physiological patient data between clinical visits. Unlike remote patient monitoring (RPM), which tracks physiological signals such as blood pressure and glucose, RTM focuses on therapy adherence, response to treatment, and patient-reported data: pain levels, fatigue, range of motion, medication adherence, and behavioral health assessments.
CMS established RTM as a distinct billing category in 2022 under CPT codes 98975–98981, enabling eligible providers (physical therapists, occupational therapists, respiratory therapists and physicians) to bill for time spent reviewing remotely collected data and communicating with patients outside of in-person encounters. RTM isn’t telehealth. It’s a continuous between-visit monitoring model that supplements in-clinic care.
Therapy adherence, exercise completion, pain scores, functional progress. Built for orthopedic conditions, post-surgical recovery and chronic pain.
Inhaler and nebulizer adherence, symptoms, pulmonary therapy compliance. COPD, asthma and chronic respiratory disease.
Behavioral therapy adherence, mood, and validated assessment responses: PHQ-2, PHQ-9, GAD-7. For patients in mental health or CBT-based care.
RTM requires a minimum of 16 days of patient-collected data per 30-day period to qualify device-supply billing. HealthArc tracks that threshold in real time and warns your team before the billing period closes. Day 14 with four days of data is a problem you can still fix; day 31 isn’t. The other detail worth knowing before you scope a program: physical and occupational therapists can bill RTM in their own right, which is not true of RPM, where the treatment-management codes sit with practitioners who can bill E/M services, and that single difference is why a busy PT clinic can stand up RTM without a physician running the day-to-day program.
Built for any outpatient or clinic-based practice where patient progress between visits directly affects outcomes, and where care teams have no visibility into what patients are doing at home.
HealthArc is a unified remote monitoring and care management platform built specifically for outpatient clinical programs. RTM runs natively alongside RPM, CCM, PCM, and TCM, so practices running multiple programs work from one dashboard, one patient record, and one billing workflow.
Not every practice has the internal bandwidth to staff a remote monitoring program. HealthArc offers a fully managed RTM service model where HealthArc's clinical care team handles patient onboarding, daily monitoring, care coordination, and documentation, all under your practice’s supervision and billing credentials.
Your care team uses HealthArc's platform to run the RTM program. HealthArc provides the software, devices, onboarding training, and ongoing technical support. Your staff manages patient communication, monitoring reviews, and billing. This one suits practices that already have care coordinator capacity, and it is usually the cheaper of the two models once you have staff who can absorb the monthly outreach without falling behind on their existing panel.
HealthArc assigns dedicated care coordinators who operate as an extension of your clinical team: enrollment, device onboarding, daily data review, patient communication, and monthly billing reports. Physicians keep clinical oversight and sign off on billing. You launch in weeks. Nobody new gets hired.
Both models operate under a zero upfront cost structure. There are no device purchase requirements and no platform licensing fees, so nothing is at risk before reimbursement begins.
CMS established RTM-specific CPT codes in 2022 and has updated billing rules and reimbursement rates in subsequent years. HealthArc's platform automates tracking against these requirements so billing staff always know which patients qualify before the billing period closes.
Initial Set-Up & Patient Education
First 30 days per device.
Device Supply: MSK Therapy
16+ days of data per 30-day period.
Device Supply: Respiratory Therapy
16+ days of data per 30-day period.
Device Supply: CBH / App-Based
16+ days of app-based data.
Treatment Management: First 20 Min
Provider / clinical staff time per month.
Treatment Management: Each Additional 20 Min
Per calendar month.
HealthArc tracks each patient's data submission days in real time, surfaces billing-eligibility alerts at the 16-day threshold, and generates monthly billing summaries ready for submission.
Estimate RTM RevenueAverage figures are national Medicare non-facility rates and vary by geography, payer, and year. Verify current rates via the CMS Physician Fee Schedule.
Most practices are actively monitoring their first RTM patients within two to four weeks of signing. The sequence is built to stay out of the way of existing clinical workflows.
HealthArc configures your account with provider roster, billing credentials, care coordinator access levels, and EHR integration settings. One implementation specialist owns the process through go-live.
Role-specific training for physicians, care coordinators, and billing staff via live sessions and on-demand video, covering enrollment, device setup, the dashboard, and billing report generation. Under four hours per role, on average.
Care coordinators enroll eligible patients, obtain consent, and ship or distribute devices. On the managed model, HealthArc’s coordinators make those calls themselves.
Once patients are submitting data, coordinators log interaction time and the platform tracks 16-day thresholds. Most practices close their first billable month within 30–45 days of signing.
HealthArc connects with your existing EHR using HL7 v2 and FHIR R4 standards, enabling bidirectional data exchange without manual re-entry of demographics, orders, or clinical notes.
Enrollment data pulled straight from your EHR.
Written back to the chart automatically.
Monthly RTM summaries exported to the EHR.
CPT logs structured for your RCM partner.
Running a sustainable RTM program requires visibility into more than individual patient adherence. Administrators need to see program-level performance and where revenue is at risk.
HealthArc is built to meet the regulatory requirements that apply to remote monitoring programs operating under Medicare and commercial payer contracts.
RTM programs generate value along two dimensions: clinical outcomes for patients and financial returns for the practice.
You can finally see whether the home exercise plan is being done. Coordinator outreach catches the patients who’d otherwise drift out of care.
Adherence sensor data documents real inhaler and nebulizer use. That helps clinically, and it helps when a payer asks for prior authorization.
PHQ-9 and GAD-7 go out between visits automatically, which builds a continuous symptom record you can use for care decisions and for value-based contracts.
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