Practice Pro — RTM Software for PT, OT & SLP
Remote therapeutic monitoring (RTM) helps therapists stay connected to patients between visits, improving engagement, supporting home exercise adherence, and creating a reimbursable channel of care that improves both patient outcomes and practice performance. Practice Pro builds RTM into your PT EMR, so monitoring, documentation and RTM billing happen in one place.
Therapists invest significant time developing plans of care, but often have limited visibility into what happens between visits. Patients may struggle with adherence, lose motivation, perform exercises incorrectly, or fail to communicate concerns until their next appointment. At the same time, clinics face increasing pressure to improve outcomes, maximize therapist efficiency, and offset declining reimbursement rates.
Without a structured remote care solution, practices miss opportunities to:
Practice Pro integrates Remote Therapeutic Monitoring directly into the therapy workflow, creating a vital touchpoints between patient activity, therapist oversight, documentation, and billing.
Through RTM integration, therapists can:
By combining RTM technology with Practice Pro’s therapy-focused EMR, clinics create a continuous care model that supports patients throughout their recovery journey.
Track exercise completion, adherence, pain levels, activity metrics, and patient-reported outcomes between visits.
Patient performance data flows directly into Practice Pro, eliminating duplicate entry and ensuring therapists have access to current information.
Facilitate ongoing therapist-patient interaction through automated messaging and between-visit engagement tools.
Identify adherence concerns or recovery challenges early and modify care plans before setbacks occur.
Capture patient interactions and progress automatically, reducing therapist administrative workload.
Eligible RTM codes are automatically surfaced and prepared for billing, helping practices maximize reimbursement opportunities.
Provide a centralized view of patient progress so clinicians and staff can access consistent, up-to-date information.
Generate reimbursable RTM services while improving patient engagement and care continuity.
Automated documentation, data syncing, and charge generation eliminate manual processes.
Spend less time gathering information and more time delivering meaningful patient care.
Remote oversight can reduce unnecessary in-clinic visits while ensuring patients continue progressing toward goals.
Better outcomes, higher patient satisfaction, and increased engagement contribute to stronger retention and long-term growth.
RTM enables practices to adapt to evolving reimbursement models while delivering modern, patient-centered care.
Remote therapeutic monitoring (RTM) lets physical therapists, occupational therapists and speech-language pathologists bill Medicare for monitoring a patient’s home exercise adherence, therapy response, pain and function between visits. It uses a set of CPT codes for setup, device supply and treatment management, billed with the GP, GO or GN modifier under a plan of care.
RTM is how the work you already do between visits, reviewing home exercise data and checking in when a patient struggles, becomes documented, reimbursable care. Practice Pro connects your home exercise programs, patient engagement tools and billing so RTM runs inside the same PT EMR.
The CY 2026 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule added two lower-threshold musculoskeletal codes, so a patient who logs fewer than 16 days of data, or a month with 10 to 19 minutes of management time, can still be billed.
| CPT code | What it covers | Threshold | Billing note |
|---|---|---|---|
| 98975 | Initial setup and patient education on the device | Once at the start of an episode of care | Bill when the patient is enrolled |
| 98977 | Device supply, musculoskeletal monitoring | 16–30 days of data in a 30-day period | Mutually exclusive with 98985 |
| 98985New 2026 | Device supply, musculoskeletal monitoring | 2–15 days of data in a 30-day period | Mutually exclusive with 98977 |
| 98979New 2026 | Treatment management | 10–19 minutes in a calendar month | Mutually exclusive with 98980; no add-on |
| 98980 | Treatment management | First 20 minutes in a calendar month | Requires at least one real-time interactive communication with the patient or caregiver |
| 98981 | Treatment management | Each additional 20 minutes | Add-on to 98980 only |
Respiratory (98976, 98984) and cognitive behavioral therapy (98978, 98986) device codes also exist but are rarely used by PT clinics. Payment varies by locality; check your MAC fee schedule.
RTM tracks non-physiologic data, such as exercise adherence, pain and function, and therapists can bill it. Remote physiologic monitoring (RPM) tracks physiologic data, such as blood pressure, weight or glucose, and uses a separate set of codes. For PT, OT and SLP clinics, RTM is the remote monitoring program to build.
Proposed, not final. The CY 2027 Physician Fee Schedule proposed rule, released July 14, 2026, would change how RTM programs run. The final rule is expected later this fall.
If you run RTM through an outside vendor today, plan for the in-house staffing proposal now. Keeping RTM inside your own EMR, with your own staff, already fits the proposed rule.
See RTM inside your PT EMR. We’ll walk through enrollment, data tracking and RTM billing on your workflow.
Book an RTM demoRemote Therapeutic Monitoring helps therapy practices improve outcomes, strengthen patient engagement, and create sustainable new revenue streams within the Practice Pro platform.
