Remote Patient Monitoring Adoption for Hypertension Management Among Medicare Beneficiaries

In this cohort study of older Medicare beneficiaries with hypertension, switching from FFS to MA was associated with lower RPM adoption, greater clinician discontinuity, and higher hypertension-related acute care use. These findings suggest that continuity safeguards and clearer payment or quality incentives during MA transitions may support remote monitoring and clinician follow-up for hypertension.

Corresponding Author: Donglan S. Zhang, PhD, Division of Health Services Research, Department of Foundations of Medicine, NYU Grossman Long Island School of Medicine, 101 Mineola Blvd, Room 3-045, Mineola, NY 11507 (donglan.zhang@nyulangone.org).

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