JointCoach measures range of motion and reps on the patient’s phone, and lays out how RTM bills under your practice’s own NPI, with your employed clinician owning the monthly review. No new billing entity.
Joint angle and reps from the phone camera, for the limb the patient picks, every session. PROMs such as HOOS/KOOS-JR and PROMIS are not built yet.
Live today741 hospitals now accountable under CMS TEAM for 30-day post-joint-replacement outcomes. Movement at home in those 30 days is hard for a hospital to see; JointCoach measures it on the patient’s phone.
TEAM live Jan 2026CPT 98975–98981, reimbursed by Medicare and many commercial plans (coverage varies by plan). Billed under your own NPI — your employed clinician carries the monthly review, as the proposed CY2027 rule would require. The device-supply codes need software that meets FDA’s device definition; JointCoach’s device-listing path is under review with a regulatory consult, so plan on the management codes until that is settled.
Rates per code, belowJointCoach is the patient side of home monitoring: on-device range-of-motion and adherence capture (deterministic computer vision on the patient’s phone — not a generative model), designed so the clinician who prescribed the plan stays the accountable owner.
JointCoach claims no certification of any kind, and it is not FDA-cleared.
Tracking runs on the patient’s phone and the session record stays there; video is never uploaded. Billing runs under the billing clinician’s own NPI, and your employed clinician carries the monthly review, as the proposed CY2027 rule would require. The operating surgeon cannot bill RTM inside their own 90-day global period; an employed PT can. No new medical entity required for your practice.
Camera tracking of joint angle and reps for the limb the patient picks, an optional pain score each session, and a one-page record the patient can show or print. No app to install, no account.
Enrollment by text message, morning and evening check-ins, a daily digest for the billing clinician, and a monthly-review list with open flags. It is switched off on this site today.
MediaPipe pose estimation runs on the patient's phone and computes range-of-motion angles there. Video is never uploaded, and the session record stays on the phone.
PROM instruments (HOOS/KOOS-JR, PROMIS), wearable data such as Apple Health or Withings, and EHR output over FHIR. None of these exists in JointCoach today.
Medicare covers remote therapeutic monitoring, subject to standard Part B cost-sharing (often covered in full by supplemental plans); many commercial plans do too, and coverage varies by plan. Codes below are from the 2026 CMS Physician Fee Schedule; payment is set there and varies by locality.
| CPT Code | Description | Frequency |
|---|---|---|
| 98975 | Remote therapeutic monitoring — device supply and education | Once per episode |
| 98977 | RTM — musculoskeletal device data collection, per 30 days | Monthly |
| 98980 | RTM — first 20 min clinical management, per 30 days | Monthly |
| 98981 | RTM — each additional 20 min clinical management | Monthly (as needed) |
Billed under the billing clinician’s own NPI, and your employed clinician carries the monthly review (CY2027 proposal). The operating surgeon cannot bill RTM on their own patient inside the 90-day global period; an employed PT can, under the PT’s own NPI. No per-patient or per-practice total is quoted: the management code was billed in about 55% of monitored months in one small 2026 neurologic-PT programme (Hohl et al. 2026), and the device-supply codes (98977, 98985) apply only if the software meets FDA’s device definition, which is not settled for JointCoach. Patient cost share is often zero for Medicare beneficiaries with supplemental coverage. Commercial coverage varies by plan; verify benefits before enrollment.
Both programs pay on what happens after the visit. JointCoach measures the movement part of it today; it does not yet collect the PROMs either program reports.
The proposed CY2027 rule would pay RTM only when the practice’s own employed staff furnish the monitoring time. So JointCoach does not staff monitoring, does not bill for you, and does not take a percentage of what you bill. The pilot is the way in.
Your PT prescribes the program and owns the monthly review; your practice bills under its own NPI. JointCoach supplies the patient-side tracking. Up to 25 patients for 90 days, with the terms on the pilot page. Your NPI, your patient relationship.
No JointCoach coordinator enrolls or reviews your patients, and no one at JointCoach escalates alerts for you. Clinical review, flags, and billing stay with your practice’s own clinicians.
Start with the same pilot at one site. You sign the RTM order and your employed clinician owns the monthly review — the proposed CY2027 rule would require it. The clinic-side tools are built and switched off; whether and how they turn on for a system is a conversation, not a checkbox.
JointCoach is the tracking step between patient education and the surgeon’s practice. Today the three connect as pages a patient and a practice can use, not as data feeds between them.
Patient education. Everything your surgeon wishes you knew before your joint replacement. Evidence-based. No login. Sets baseline expectations and PROM literacy before monitoring begins.
Home exercise with camera tracking: joint angle, reps, and pain for the limb the patient picks, on a record that stays on the patient’s phone.
The surgeon's practice OS. Encounter capture, billing intelligence, prior auth. JointCoach results do not feed it yet.
Start with a scoped pilot: one PT you already employ, up to 25 patients, one procedure type, your site. Go/no-go at 90 days.
One procedure type — total knee, total hip, or lumbar fusion. Pre-specified at enrollment.
A go/no-go decision at day 90, with one PT you already employ.
What happens after the 90 days is set out on the pilot page before you start.
Whether you're running 50 joint replacements a year or 500, JointCoach scales to your volume. Tell us what you're working with and we'll design the right pathway.