For serious students who want to learn more....this one is not too GEEKy but long. So I won't post the whole thing

https://medium.com/@Morgan_Reed/sla...s-of-connected-health-innovation-6b273858d95f


Note who wrote it...

Morgan Reed
I'm the Executive Director of ACT | The App Association. We represent more than 5,000 app companies in the mobile economy.
Dec 1, 2017


Slaying Silicon Valley’s White Whale: Realizing the Benefits of Connected Health Innovation


hcare will remain Silicon Valley’s white whale until entrepreneurs and venture capitalists break down the real barrier to success. Like most difficulties, it’s all about the money — more specifically, the payment and reimbursement model that underpins the finances of our entire healthcare system.


In simplest terms, we’ve created the opportunity for physicians to be reimbursed for using patient data.

Medicare is BIGGER than ALL the insurers....

Every year, nearly 40 percent of the national healthcare expenditure is run through CMS.

Nowhere is this problem more acute than at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), the biggest, most influential player in the American healthcare ecosystem. 


Beginning January 2019, the program’s Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) will assess doctors based on how many MIPS points they accumulate from a list of approved “Improvement Activities.”


These new rules will provide doctors with points each time they review patient generated health data from a connected, wearable, remote monitoring device, and will culminate in a financial bonus at the end of each year. 

just HUGE, if you have such a device, will you bring it to market?


this year CMS took the first key steps towards reimbursing connected health innovations in a value-based system. CMS committed to unbundle, or provide payment for, CPT code 99091. The 99091 code covers doctors’ collection and interpretation of physiologic data — like blood pressure or glucose levels — digitally stored and/or transmitted by a patient or their caregiver for a minimum of 30 minutes. Unbundling this code finally allows doctors and care providers to be reimbursed for time spent reviewing patient data generated from a connected device.

5 star read much more.