Orthopedics & Physical Therapy — continuous care programmesThe RTM lane,
built properly.
RTM was written for exactly this work. Because the codes are designated 'sometimes therapy', physical and occupational therapists can furnish RTM under a therapy plan of care — which makes it the remote-monitoring path many rehab practices can actually use.
What applies here, and why.
Which programme suits a given panel is a clinical and documentation decision. This is the shape we see most often — treat it as a starting point for a conversation, not a prescription.
- Home exercise adherence
- Therapy response and functional progress
- Patient-reported pain and function between sessions
The signal that matters is a patient quietly stopping — adherence falling away before the outcome does. That is a different alerting problem from a vital sign crossing a line.
How it runs
RTM under a therapy plan of care has its own documentation requirements. We build the workflow so the plan, the time, and the adherence record are captured as the therapy happens.
Thresholds set by the physician, not by a default.
Escalation logic, alert bands, and care-plan rules are specified by a physician who has run them — which is why what reaches the chart is clinically meaningful rather than raw telemetry.
A threshold that fires on every patient is noise, and noise gets ignored. The escalation rules are written per patient, by the clinician who knows what a change actually means for them.
Codes that commonly apply.
What each one requires, and what it pays, lives in the CPT reference — one source, so nothing drifts.
Run this in your orthopedics & physical therapy practice. We will tell you what it takes.
Tell us your panel and the system you run. We will be straight about which programme fits and what the documentation actually requires.