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1 http://www.techandaging.org.
2 The Medicare home health beneit pays a 60-day
episodic rate for home health care, including remote
patient monitoring, when four criteria are met: the
older adult is homebound, requires skilled care
on an intermittent basis, a physician signs a home
health certiication, and the patient receives care
from a Medicare-certiied home health agency.
3 Every participating patient has comorbidities and
the numbers relect this overlap.
4 Centura Health at Home, reporting outcomes to the
Center for Technology and Aging.
5 http://www.caretransitions.org.
