Evara Health is tackling chronic conditions and saving lives with RPM

The FQHC has seen significant improvements in blood pressure and A1c numbers across the patient population enrolled in its remote patient monitoring program.

A while back, Evara Health had briefly considered remote patient monitoring as a service, but the federally qualified health center never had the necessary funding.

With so many patients being elderly or having transportation issues, the organization recognized the need to better monitor patients with chronic diseases who were not able to come into clinics regularly.

Evara also needed a way to better monitor patients being discharged from the ER to reduce the likelihood they would need to come back. Unfortunately, Medicaid does not provide reimbursement for RPM services. As an FQHC, Evara did not qualify for reimbursement from Medicare.

"With more than half of our patients on Medicaid and another quarter uninsured, we had no way to fund the initial startup costs or the ongoing service costs," said Howard Rubin, CIO at Evara Health. "We had applied for a number of grants to start up a program. In late 2021, we were fortunate to be awarded one of the FCC telehealth grants, which gave us the funding to initiate an RPM program."

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