# 119-s-1535: Rural Patient Monitoring (RPM) Access Act

119-s-1535, Rural Patient Monitoring (RPM) Access Act, is a 119th Congress bill sponsored by Sen. Blackburn, Marsha [R-TN] (R-TN); status introduced; PRIA reads it as touching household money (as of 2025-12-21).

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## Facts
- Bill: 119-s-1535
- Congress: 119
- Title: Rural Patient Monitoring (RPM) Access Act
- Status: introduced
- Introduced: 2025-04-30
- Sponsor: Sen. Blackburn, Marsha [R-TN] (R-TN)
- Cosponsors: 1
- Policy area: Health
- Touches household money: yes
- Last recorded action: 2025-12-21

## Summary

**Guarantees a minimum Medicare payment rate for remote physiologic monitoring (RPM) in rural areas and creates new quality and reporting rules to support its use.** It would raise practice expense and malpractice geographic indices for RPM to at least 1.00 and require providers to meet standards for data response, EHR transmission, and reporting to measure cost savings. - Rural Medicare beneficiaries: Would gain stronger support for remote monitoring of chronic conditions, which aims to reduce travel burdens and help catch problems earlier. - RPM providers and small practices: Payments for RPM furnished on or after Jan 1, 2026 would be adjusted so practice expense and malpractice indices cannot be below 1.00, and small practices may qualify for exceptions to some quality requirements. - Program oversight and evaluation: Providers must respond to data anomalies, send captured vitals and treatment notes to supervising clinicians' electronic health records, and submit data so the Secretary can analyze estimated savings; a report to Congress is required within two years.

## Cosponsors (1)

- Sen. Warner, Mark R. [D-VA] (D-VA), 2025-04-30T00:00:00.000Z

## Provisions PRIA read

- More Medicare remote monitoring in rural areas: benefit, low. If enacted, the bill would define what counts as remote physiologic monitoring for Medicare. It would require RPM providers to respond to abnormal data, send captured vitals and treatment notes into the supervising provider's electronic health record, and collect and report data the HHS Secretary n…

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- 119-s-882: Patients Before Middlemen Act
- 119-s-554: United States-Israel Defense Partnership Act of 2025
- 119-s-3597: National Quantum Initiative Reauthorization Act of 2026
- 119-s-5098: Enhancing K–12 Cybersecurity Act

## Sources
- [119-s-1535 on Congress.gov](https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-bill/1535)

## Related
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- [119-s-1748: Kids Online Safety Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-1748)
- [119-s-882: Patients Before Middlemen Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-882)
- [119-s-554: United States-Israel Defense Partnership Act of 2025](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-554)
- [119-s-3597: National Quantum Initiative Reauthorization Act of 2026](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-3597)
- [119-s-5098: Enhancing K–12 Cybersecurity Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-5098)
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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-1535 (as of 2025-12-21).