Continuing from it’s proof-of-concept work this spring, SaRA Health released results of a study supporting the efficacy of it’s application.
Steven Coen, SaRA Health CEO
Clinics “billed for these (new medical billing) codes successfully… and estimate they’ll add $5,000 per clinician per year,” CEO Steven Coen told bizblip. “The other thing that we weren’t expecting, honestly, was for patients to be so open to using this (application) after they had stopped scheduling (in person) visits.”
The new set of medical billing codes for ‘Remote Therapeutic Monitoring’ came out this year to allow patients without monitoring devices to get data back to their clinicians outside of a visit, and allow that clinician to be compensated. They started with pilots in musculoskeletal and respiratory.
Maintaining contact is important because many patients discontinue treatment when the pain stops, opening themselves up to re-injury. Maintaining and monitoring the patient’s therapy cuts costs for employers and insurers, however, prior to the new codes there was not a way to bill for remote follow-up that is not tied to a device.
SaRA Health was founded in January, 2017 in Lee’s Summit, Missouri. bizblip readers first heard of the startup in March when Coen went to Omaha for the ‘Get Started Omaha’ pitch competition. Coen says the app is in an ‘enhanced paid beta’ stage of development, just shy of full release.
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