
The 2027 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Proposed Rule Explained
CMS’s CY 2027 Physician Fee Schedule proposed rule updates Medicare payment rates, RPM/RTM requirements, and rural health policy. Here is what changed.
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CMS’s CY 2027 Physician Fee Schedule proposed rule updates Medicare payment rates, RPM/RTM requirements, and rural health policy. Here is what changed.

H.R. 8261 could eliminate Medicare’s 20% coinsurance for Chronic Care Management services, removing a major barrier to patient enrollment. Learn what the proposed legislation may mean for beneficiaries, care teams, and practices delivering CCM programs.

FQHC · Billing and coding · Care management DrKumo Editorial Team June 25, 2026 7 min read G0511 FQHC / RHC RPM APCM For Federally

Chronic Care · CMS Policy · Remote Patient Monitoring DrKumo Editorial Team 7 min read ACCESS Model RPM Chronic Care On July 5, 2026, CMS

Distance, staffing shortages, and weak connectivity make it hard for rural clinics to follow patients between visits. See how cellular remote patient monitoring reaches patients with no smartphone or home internet, and what Medicare requires.

Open Enrollment does not enroll or disenroll anyone from RPM or CCM, but it resets coverage underneath your panel on January 1. Here is what changes, what does not, and what to audit before the new plan year starts.

A bipartisan letter from Senators Warner and Blackburn asks CMS not to finalize the CY 2027 rule requiring RPM clinical services to be furnished by employed staff. Here is what the senators argued, who else objected during the comment period, and what practices should watch before the final rule.

APCM, CCM, and PCM overlap in the same patient population, but only one can be billed for a patient in a calendar month. Here is how the three programs differ on eligibility, time thresholds, care plan scope, and concurrent billing, and how to decide which fits your practice.

CMS’s CY 2027 proposed rule would restrict RPM/RTM billing to employed clinical staff. Congress separately advanced a bill expanding rural RPM access.

The Rural Health Transformation Program (RHTP) is directing $50 billion in federal funding toward rural healthcare from fiscal year 2026 through fiscal year 2030. Remote




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