NEVVI Medicare utilization intelligence

Remote patient monitoring went from almost nothing to an estimated 1,010,000 Medicare patients in five years

Published Jul 2026 · CMS Part B PUF 📋 Cite See the data →
Estimated Medicare patients under remote-monitoring management · 2019–2024
2019: 29K29K20192020: 163K163K20202021: 329K329K20212022: 546K546K20222023: 729K729K20232024: 1.0M1.0M2024
Estimated total-Medicare patients who received remote physiologic monitoring management, counted once each on the per-patient management code, scaled to total enrollment (est.); the code enters the record in 2019. Full method below.

Remote patient monitoring barely existed in Medicare before 2019 — the per-patient management code had only just entered the record. By 2024 it was routine, with about 490,000 patients on the fee-for-service record alone.

What is counted is a connected device sending readings between visits — a blood-pressure cuff, weight scale, or glucometer managed by a care team. The ramp tracks a new code being switched on, not a long-standing service expanding.

These are patients, counted once each — not billed lines, which run several times higher because a monitored patient generates a monthly device-supply line plus management time.

Whether monitoring changes outcomes is a separate, unsettled question. This figure is only how many patients Medicare paid to monitor.

A volume record, not a verdict — how many patients Medicare paid to monitor, not whether the monitoring helped.

What this is

Estimated total-Medicare patients who received remote-monitoring management (beneficiary counts on the per-patient management code), 2019 to 2024, scaled from the fee-for-service record.

What it is not

Not billed claim lines, not a count of devices, not an outcomes or effectiveness measure, and not all-payer.

How this is counted
Beneficiary counts on the per-patient remote physiologic monitoring management code (first 20 minutes) — counted as patients, once each — on the Medicare fee-for-service record, then scaled to total Medicare enrollment (the estimated total). Billed lines run several times the headcount: a monitored patient generates a monthly device-supply line plus per-time management lines. The scaled figure is an estimate: it assumes Medicare Advantage per-capita use of remote monitoring ≈ fee-for-service — an assumption shakier for a young service than for an established one. The management code entered the record in 2019. Cells under 11 beneficiaries withheld by CMS. Source: Medicare Part B.

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