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Starting on January 1, 2027, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) will hold participating cardiology practices accountable for the outcomes of their heart failure and high-risk cardiac patients. This is the Ambulatory Specialty Model, or ASM and if your practice has been selected to participate, it’s going to change how you’re reimbursed.
Practices that build the right infrastructure now — the workflows, the patient engagement programs, the monitoring strategies — will be positioned to succeed under the new model. Practices that wait will be playing catch-up against the deadline.
Here’s the part most practices don’t realize yet: ASM isn’t really a billing change. It’s an operations challenge. Success depends on whether your practice can reliably track, engage, and intervene with high-risk HF patients between office visits — and that’s where many practices are unequipped today.
That’s where Cardiac RMS comes in.
The Ambulatory Specialty Model isn’t introducing an entirely new set of responsibilities. Rather, it places greater emphasis on many of the priorities cardiology practices are already working to improve, including:
ASM raises the importance of these initiatives by linking performance more directly to reimbursement. Practices that establish effective clinical workflows and proactive patient management strategies today will be better positioned for long-term success.
Cardiac RMS isn’t another remote monitoring vendor asking you to add a device program to your plate. We’re a partner that helps you build the infrastructure ASM requires — so your practice is ready well before January 2027.
Who follows up with patients between visits currently? Who tracks compliance, monitors blood pressure trends, or documents interventions?
Cardiac RMS helps practices build scalable workflows that handle these demands without adding headcount.
ASM rewards practices that can demonstrate consistent, documented patient engagement. We help you build and track that engagement so it’s readily available when you need to report on it.
As healthcare shifts toward performance-based reimbursement, cardiology practices need efficient workflows and measurable outcomes. Cardiac RMS helps practices by identifying improvement opportunities and implementing solutions for lasting financial success.
Not sure how prepared your practice actually is? Our short, no-obligation scorecard takes two minutes and gives you a clear picture of where you stand on the things that matter most under ASM — monitoring, staffing, documentation, and patient engagement.
The practices that move quickly on ASM will have the advantage and more time to build the right workflows, train their teams, and demonstrate strong outcomes before the compliance clock starts.
We’d like to be part of that conversation with you.
Schedule a complimentary ASM consultation with our team. We’ll talk through where your practice stands today, what ASM means for your specific patient population, and how Cardiac RMS can help you get ready.
ASM (Ambulatory Specialty Model) is a new CMS payment model launching on January 1, 2027, that holds selected cardiology practices accountable for outcomes in heart failure and related high-risk cardiac care. Not all practices are selected to participate, however, if you’ve received notice from CMS, your practice has been identified for the model. If you’re not sure whether your practice is included, we can help you find out.
Under ASM, reimbursement will be tied to performance on quality and cost measures. Practices that haven’t built the workflows and monitoring infrastructure to track and improve outcomes may see their reimbursement affected as much as ± 9% and growing over the next five years of the program. Practices that prepare early have more time to build the systems that protect against this.
No. RPM is one important tool, but ASM readiness is really about your practice’s overall ability to track, engage, and document care for high-risk HF patients between visits. We look at your workflows, staffing, and patient engagement strategy as a whole and RPM is one piece of a broader plan.
It depends on where your practice stands today, which is exactly what the Readiness Scorecard and consultation are designed to identify. Many practices can put meaningful infrastructure in place well before the January 2027 start date if they begin now.
Not necessarily. A major part of what we help practices do is build workflows that handle ASM’s added demands without expanding headcount by using the right combination of monitoring technology, documentation processes, and support from our clinical team.
It’s a no-obligation conversation with our team about where your practice currently stands, what ASM means for your specific patient population, and what next steps make sense for you. There’s no sales pressure…just honest answers.
We don’t lead with devices. We lead with readiness by helping practices understand what ASM requires, then building the right combination of workflow support, patient engagement, and remote monitoring to meet it. Our goal is to be the partner you call first, not just another vendor you have to manage.
However your practice scored, the next step is the same: a conversation with someone who can help you turn this into a successful program.
Schedule Your Complimentary ASM Readiness Consultation with Cardiac RMS
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Cardiac RMS LLC is a clinical service partner with expertise in remote monitoring of patients who have a cardiac pacemaker, implantable cardiac defibrillator, implantable heart failure device, or implantable loop recorder. Services also include Virtual Care Management, utilizing Remote Physiologic Monitoring (RPM) and care management to remotely support the treatment of patients with chronic conditions.