Medicare recently announced reimbursement for Self-Measured Blood Pressure Monitoring (SMBP) services and has temporarily made delivering SMBP via telehealth a Medicare-billable telehealth service (CPT code 99473).
Additionally, the code for automatic home blood pressure monitors (A4670) is separately available.
Additional SMBP resources include:
- American Medical Association’s Validated Device Listing
- New CPT Codes to Cover SBMP Tool by Target BP
- Million Hearts partnered with the NACHC to guide patients in appropriate home BP monitoring techniques.
- Million Hearts SMBP Action Guide for CliniciansPage 15 features CDC's preferred characteristics to inform home blood pressure monitor selection
- Page 28 features a proposed guideline for BP monitor calibration
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