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RTM, defined: Remote Therapeutic Monitoring for the patients you only see between visits.

RTM is the reimbursable workflow that runs alongside antidepressant and anxiolytic care between your visits, whether that's a month or a quarter. FDA-registered software collects therapeutic data (adherence, symptom curve, side-effect timeline, behavioral skill use) and delivers a 60-second CBT or MET nudge matched to the moment. You walk into the next visit with a documented arc instead of a mystery.

The order defines the scope. RTM documents and informs over the cycle. It does not alert, and it does not create a monitoring duty you didn't order.

30-second walkthrough. Pause anytime.

What it adds, alongside your existing panel

Additive revenue. Additive clinical signal. No new workflow for your billers.

+$79–$83

Per patient, per month, additive. After platform fee. 10 patients = +$9,500–$10,000 / year. Assumes consistent monthly capture and payer coverage; figures reflect full enrollment.

88%

Weekly engagement across our active RTM panels. The engagement is what makes the CBT microlearning land.

2.6M+

Patients reached by remote care programs our team built and scaled at Philips, before there was a code for it. We built inside the regulatory machinery first.

How the engagement sticks

Methods matched. Humans delivering. A loop that learns.

Personalized CBT and MET microlearning isn't a tagline - it's a delivery system. Three pieces that work together.

01 · The method

Evidence-based methods, deployed

Six methods illustrated below. The full library carries more.

CBT
  • Behavioral activation
    for depressed patients who can't get going
  • Cognitive restructuring
    for catastrophic and ruminative thought patterns
  • Sleep restriction therapy
    for insomnia comorbid with depression and anxiety
MET
  • MI-informed adherence support
    motivational interviewing principles, built into the content
  • Decisional balance
    for patients weighing dose decisions
  • Change-talk elicitation
    for the patient on the fence

Plus thought records, behavioral experiments, graduated exposure, problem-solving therapy, values clarification, normalization protocols, and more.

02 · The content

Nudge science. Edited by licensed clinicians.

Every micro-lesson is derived from CBT and MET best practices and edited by licensed behavioral health professionals before it ever reaches a patient.

Delivered across formats (video, animation, and text) with tone, length, and reading level tuned to the patient. The library evolves with each patient as engagement signals reveal what lands.

Video
60-second micro-lessons
Animation
concept visualizations
Text
tone and length tuned to the patient

Live auxiliary personnel (clinical staff who perform interactive reviews and, when desired, interactive communication with the patient under your general supervision) is available as a higher-tier service.

03 · The loop

Algorithmic surface. Clinical depth.

Software routes each patient across methods, formats, tone, and length based on response and engagement signals. Your clinical team reviews routing and adjusts when patterns don't stick. Algorithmic matching makes it scale. Clinical judgment makes it work.

Daily engagement signals
Algorithmic routing
Clinical review and adjust
Adjusted match
How a real follow-up adapts

One patient. One 30-day cycle. Programmatic at the start, adaptive by design.

  1. Week 1 · the program starts
    A new SSRI patient is enrolled. The first touchpoints are scheduled, not reactive: a short daily check-in plus a 60-second MI-informed micro-lesson on what the first weeks look like, why early effects are not the whole picture. Self-monitoring begins. The patient gets used to logging, the system gets its baseline.
  2. Week 2 · the pattern emerges
    She logs a few skipped doses, "felt fine, took it this morning." The accumulating signal, not a single entry, routes her to MET decisional balance: why today’s dose matters even when yesterday felt fine. Tone and length adjust to how she has been engaging.
  3. Week 3 · the system adapts, a human steps in
    The skips continue. The pattern (not one data point) triggers escalation. Live auxiliary personnel, a higher-tier service under your general supervision, reach out directly, acknowledge the pattern, and offer a brief check-in. The skipping appears tied to catastrophic thinking about side effects, so the next match adjusts toward cognitive restructuring, delivered as animation since her engagement favors visual format.
  4. Week 4 · the cycle closes, documented
    The arc resolves into a record: what was monitored, what the patient engaged with, what the auxiliary touch surfaced. Nudge RTM validates the cycle against RTM rules, confirms the monitoring days and management time, and flags it bill-ready or surfaces what's missing before the claim goes out.

The patient never sees the machinery. She sees a clinician answering the moments she's in, over weeks. You walk into the next visit with a documented arc instead of a mystery.

What RTM was built to address

The jobs you can't do in a 12-minute visit, and the patients you can't see in the days between them.

01

Adherence you can't observe

Up to half of antidepressant patients stop or alter their regimen within the first 90 days, often without telling anyone. You find out at the next visit, if at all. RTM surfaces it in the cycle.

02

Activation windows you can't watch

Weeks 1–4 of titration carry the highest activation-symptom risk, especially in adolescents. RTM documents the pattern in the window you're most worried about.

03

Side effects patients won't volunteer

Sexual, GI, sleep, and emotional-blunting side effects are systematically under-reported in-visit. A private daily log surfaces them in summary form before the visit.

The work is already happening between your visits. RTM makes it visible, billable, and clinically useful.

Three patients, one workflow

Same arc. Method matched to the moment.

72 · The dose-rationer

Skips her SSRI on good days. Doubles on bad ones. Thinks she's saving doses for when she really needs them.

Gets a 60-second MET decisional-balance prompt: why today's dose matters even when yesterday felt fine.

28 · The silent side-effect

Three weeks into a new antidepressant. Sexual side effects she won't mention at her 12-minute appointment.

Gets a normalization micro-lesson and a private side-effect log she can share at the visit.

16 · The week-two parent

Adolescent two weeks into an SSRI. Parent thinks it's not working yet and is considering stopping the medication.

Parent gets a 90-second MI-informed nudge (change-talk elicitation from a clinician on video) about what week-two means in titration and the activation window to watch.

When your patient is also in therapy

One clinician bills RTM. Per patient, per cycle.

If you're the patient's only clinician, that's you, and RTM is additive. If there's a care team, you decide together who owns it. Everyone else still sees the data.

A prescriber might be the patient's only clinician, might provide therapy and medication management both, or might share the patient with a separate therapist. The rule is the same in every case: one clinician of record bills RTM per 30-day episode. Here's how that resolves.

The order defines the scope. RTM documents and informs over the cycle, for the one clinician of record. It does not create a second clinical obligation for anyone who isn't billing.

Not a Class II device

Nudge RTM is an FDA-registered Class I device. It is not a Class II decision-support or alerting device. It captures and organizes therapeutic data so the pattern is visible at your next visit. The clinical decisions stay yours.

Highmark RP-084 + CMS RTM

Remote Therapeutic Monitoring

Effective: Highmark Feb 23, 2026 · CMS RTM since 2022
Covers: Therapeutic data (adherence, response, behavioral skill use) collected via FDA-registered software.
Order required: Physician or QHP, up to 90 days. Established patient relationship.
Reimbursable CPT codes
98975Initial set-up and patient education on the device
98978Device supply, cognitive behavioral therapy - 30 daysBH-specific
98980Treatment management, first 20 minutes per month
98981Treatment management, each additional 20 minutes

RTM also has codes for respiratory (98976) and musculoskeletal (98977) device supply. Not applicable to behavioral health.

CommercialPAWVDENY
Medicare AdvantagePAWVDENY

Anthony Como

Founder & CEO, KuduCare
The KuduCare team has built and scaled CBT and MET-based remote care programs reaching millions of patients inside FDA and CMS regulatory environments, then turned that playbook toward behavioral health.
Pittsburgh, PA · anthony.como@kuducare.com
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