UnitedHealthcare Delays Remote Patient Monitoring Coverage Changes — What Providers Need to Know
UnitedHealthcare (UHC) recently announced an indefinite delay in implementing its planned changes to remote patient monitoring (RPM) coverage, providing a temporary reprieve for providers and patients who had been preparing for significant cuts to reimbursement. This pause comes amid strong industry pushback and rising concern over the potential impact on chronic care management. What Was […]
Kencor Health Becomes a Member and Partner of Venture Dock in Palo Alto
Kencor Health is pleased to announce that we have officially joined Venture Dock as a member and partner. This strategic partnership establishes Kencor Health’s presence at one of Silicon Valley’s most prominent hubs for founders, investors, and high-growth technology companies. About Venture Dock Venture Dock is a founder-driven ecosystem designed to foster collaboration, accelerate […]
Why Remote Patient Monitoring Is Essential for Payers — And Why It Must Be Delivered Through Provider Networks
Across Medicare Advantage, Medicaid, Commercial, and ACO-based organizations, payers are facing rising costs tied to chronic disease. Traditional claims-driven models provide limited visibility into members’ day-to-day health, revealing deterioration only after costly events occur. Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) provides real-time insight that enables proactive intervention, stronger quality performance, and measurable reductions in avoidable utilization. […]
How Remote Patient Monitoring Helps Physician Offices Deliver Better Care with Less Effort
For medical practices managing hypertension, diabetes, COPD, CHF, CKD, obesity, or complex multimorbidity, one constant challenge remains: how do we keep high-risk patients stable between visits without stretching our teams thin? Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) is solving that problem for cardiologists, primary care physicians, endocrinologists, pulmonologists, and nephrologists across the country. When implemented correctly, RPM […]
How Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) Strengthens Health Systems, Improves Outcomes, and Lowers Total Cost of Care
Hospitals and health systems face rising acuity, workforce shortages, value-based contract requirements, and escalating chronic disease burdens. RPM has emerged as a strategic lever that advances quality, reduces utilization, and improves patient experience while supporting financial goals. Kencor Health’s RPM model combines AI-driven analytics, patient engagement, and care coordination to help health systems manage populations […]
A More Human Way to Care: How Chronic Care Management (CCM) Helps Physician Practices Deliver Better Outcomes Without Burning Out Their Teams and Strengthens Financial Health
For physician practices, the gap between patient needs and available clinical capacity keeps widening. Providers are responsible for managing increasingly complex chronic conditions including hypertension, diabetes, COPD, CHF, CKD, obesity, and depression, all while dealing with stagnant office visit reimbursements, staffing shortages, and rising administrative tasks. Chronic Care Management (CCM) offers a structured way to […]
A Blueprint for Better Member Outcomes: How Chronic Care Management (CCM) Helps Payors Improve Quality, Reduce Cost, Strengthen Risk Adjustment, and Achieve Financial Sustainability with Kencor Health
Payors face rising chronic disease prevalence, competitive Star rating pressure, enrollment churn, unaddressed SDoH needs, and unpredictable cost spikes from avoidable acute events. Plans need a structured, scalable way to stabilize chronic populations and improve performance across clinical, financial, and operational domains. CCM provides the following benefits to Payors: Strengthening Quality and Star Performance: CCM […]
Scaling Proactive Chronic Care: How Chronic Care Management (CCM) Helps Health Systems Improve Outcomes, Meet Value-Based Care Goals, and Strengthen Financial Performance with Kencor Health’s Enterprise Operational Model
Health systems today face immense pressure: rising chronic disease burden, workforce shortages, complex value-based arrangements, readmission penalties, and increasingly high expectations from patients and payors. Episodic care alone cannot address these challenges. Chronic Care Management (CCM) provides a scalable layer of continuous engagement, enabling systems to intervene earlier, stabilize high-risk populations, and improve long-term outcomes. […]
CMS Final Rule 2026: What’s Changing for Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) and Why It Matters
On November 5, 2025, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released the final rule for the 2026 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (PFS), introducing several long-awaited updates that reshape how clinicians can bill for Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) services. These finalized updates take effect January 1, 2026, and reflect CMS’s continued effort to align […]
UnitedHealthcare Announces Major Coverage Changes to Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) for 2026
*Effective January 1, 2026, coverage for Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) will be limited to specific conditions* UnitedHealthcare (UHC) has released an important policy update that will significantly impact reimbursement for Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) services across all of its insurance products, including Medicare Advantage, Commercial, and State Exchange plans. Starting January 1, 2026, UnitedHealthcare will […]
