Brown Health ends remote monitoring program

BROWN HEALTH Medical Group Primary Care has cut an at-home monitoring program for patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, or COPD, heart failure and hypertension as health insurance premiums have failed to keep up with rising costs./COURTESY OF BROWN UNIVERSITY HEALTH.

PROVIDENCE – Brown Health Medical Group Primary Care has cut an at-home monitoring program for patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, or COPD, heart failure and hypertension as health insurance premiums have failed to keep up with rising costs. The program, which ended May 5, had about 700 patients enrolled who were given medical equipment

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