How Do Enrollees with Private Health Insurance Use Remote Monitoring Technologies?
This Healthy System Tracker analysis, authored by KFF and the Peterson Center on Healthcare, examines remote monitoring technologies, identifying the types of patients and health conditions they serve and what is spent on these services. There are an estimated 300,000 adults with employer-sponsored health coverage for whom insurers received at least one remote monitoring claim in 2023.
Among adults under 65 with private health insurance, older people and women are most likely to use remote monitoring. These services are mostly used for people with hypertension and other circulatory diseases, and musculoskeletal conditions. The median cost of remote monitoring varies, ranging from $55 a month ($12 out of pocket) for a clinician to monitor physical data, such as blood pressure, to $78 a month ($21 out of pocket) for a provider to monitor self-reported data, such as pain.
The full analysis and other data on health costs are available on the Peterson-KFF Health System Tracker, an online information hub dedicated to monitoring and assessing the performance of the U.S. health system.
