Patient R.P. has suffered a long history of heart failure. In the past two years, the patient had been hospitalized once, lasting three days and amounting to a cost of $9,000. During that same time-period she had been to the ED twice, totaling $1,876. In April 2015, while admitted to certified home care without telemonitoring, the patient was once again hospitalized for heart failure. Upon being discharged from the hospital patient R.P. was readmitted to certified home care, but this time placed in the telemonitoring program, and has not been hospitalized since. In June, the patient no longer required certified home care services but was still at risk for rehospitalization, and so was seamlessly transferred into the RPM program. Since admission to the RPM program, patient R.P has remained both out of the hospital and the ED. She has also exhibited more independence in her care and verbalized how much more comfortable she is in self-care. The monthly cost of the RPM program is $300.

 

The RPM program has certainly contributed to patient R.P.'s good health. Her vitals remain stable and with constant oversight, have not fallen outside her physician's set parameters.