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The short answerThe core differenceRTM billing-gate automationWho each is built forComparison at a glanceWhich one fits your practiceFAQKey takeaways
- BoneArc is a narrow, billing-gate-first RTM platform built for independent PT and orthopedic practices.
- Limber Health pairs a digital home-exercise platform with MSK outcomes programs, built around payer and health-system partnerships, with RTM supported alongside that HEP core.
- The deciding question is whether you're buying an RTM billing engine for your own panel or a payer-aligned digital MSK program that happens to touch RTM.
- Disclosure: we build BoneArc. Limber Health's capabilities below are summarized from its own public materials, not a hands-on trial — verify specifics directly with them.
BoneArc and Limber Health both build home-exercise-adjacent software for musculoskeletal recovery, but they're built for different buyers. BoneArc is a purpose-built RTM billing engine for independent PT and orthopedic practices — it automates consent, data-day and treatment-management thresholds, the required monthly interactive call, and produces an audit-ready certified record, priced per active patient. Limber Health pairs a digital home-exercise platform with MSK outcomes programs and has invested heavily in payer and health-system partnerships, supporting RTM workflows alongside that broader HEP and outcomes core. If your main goal is capturing RTM revenue correctly at an independent-practice scale, BoneArc's narrower focus usually fits better; if you're part of a group with (or seeking) payer or system partnerships around a digital MSK program, Limber's model may fit that relationship better.
The core difference: billing engine vs. payer-aligned MSK program
Both companies sit in MSK digital health and both show up when a practice or a payer searches for RTM or digital-HEP software. But they were built to answer different questions.
BoneArc starts from the billing gates: has this patient consented, have they logged enough data-days, has enough treatment-management time accumulated, has the required monthly interactive call happened and been attested, and is the resulting month's record complete enough to hand to a biller. The patient app, the protocol builder, and the analytics all exist to keep those gates moving for an independent practice's own panel.
Limber Health starts from the home-exercise experience and outcomes tracking, built to sit inside payer and health-system relationships — a digital MSK program a payer or system can point members or patients to, with RTM as a capability supported alongside that core rather than the organizing principle. Its go-to-market leans on those partnerships more than a self-serve, per-clinic RTM sale.
Neither approach is wrong — they're built for different relationships. The question is whether you're buying software for your own panel, or a program meant to plug into a payer or system contract.
RTM billing-gate automation
Whichever platform you evaluate, the RTM billing gates themselves come from CMS policy, not from either vendor. Under the current CPT structure, RTM setup is billed once per episode (98975), device-supply codes require a threshold number of logged data-days in a rolling 30-day window (98977 and 98985 split that window into two bands), and treatment-management codes (98979, 98980, 98981) require accumulated management time plus a documented synchronous interactive phone call each calendar month.
What separates platforms isn't whether these codes appear in their marketing copy — it's whether the software tracks each gate per patient, surfaces what's missing before the claim goes out, and assembles the documentation an auditor would actually ask for. Ask any vendor, BoneArc included, to walk one real patient from consent through a certified month and show you the artifact your biller would file from.
For a practice built around independent PT or ortho billing, that walk-through is BoneArc's whole product. For Limber Health, RTM sits alongside a broader HEP and outcomes program whose primary sales conversation is often the payer or system partnership itself — worth asking pointed questions about how the RTM billing gates are surfaced day-to-day for your front-line staff, and what the economics look like under your specific contract.
Who each is built for
BoneArc
Disclosure: this is us. BoneArc is built specifically for musculoskeletal RTM — independent PT clinics and orthopedic practices — with the billing layer as its center of gravity: every gate is tracked per patient and rolled into a certified, audit-ready monthly record. Patients log their assigned home program in a simple iOS app; providers can upload an existing protocol and BoneArc turns it into an assignable template. Pricing is published per-active-patient, graduated from $15/patient/month. It's deliberately not a payer-facing program or a hospital case-management system.
Limber Health
Limber Health pairs a digital home-exercise platform with MSK outcomes programs, and has invested heavily in payer and health-system partnerships as its go-to-market. It supports RTM workflows alongside its core HEP and outcomes product. A good fit if you want a payer-aligned digital MSK program with an established outcomes-tracking layer; independent practices evaluating it specifically for RTM should ask how the billing gates are surfaced day-to-day for front-line staff, and what the practice-level economics look like under the relevant contract.
Comparison at a glance
| BoneArc | Limber Health | |
|---|---|---|
| Built for | Independent PT clinics & ortho practices | Payer- and system-aligned MSK programs |
| Center of gravity | RTM billing-gate automation & audit-ready records | Digital HEP + MSK outcomes tracking |
| RTM's role in the product | The core product | Supported alongside the HEP/outcomes core |
| Typical buyer | Practice owner / PT lead | Payer or health-system partnership lead |
| Sales motion | Self-serve demo, per-patient pricing | Partnership / contract-based |
| Therapy plan-of-care / GP modifier fit | Built around it | Confirm directly — verify under your specific contract |
Limber Health's row summarized from its public materials as of August 2026 — capabilities and go-to-market change; confirm current specifics directly with the vendor.
Which one fits your practice
If you're an independent PT clinic or orthopedic practice whose immediate goal is turning the recovery monitoring you already do into correctly billed RTM revenue, a purpose-built billing engine with per-patient pricing — demoed against your own protocols — is the more direct path. If you're part of a practice group, payer, or health system building or extending a digital MSK program around existing or planned partnerships, Limber's model may already fit your relationships and procurement reality better.
Either way, insist on the same demo script: one real patient, consent to a certified month — show the data-days accruing, the management-time log, the interactive-call attestation, and the exact document your biller would file from. Any platform that can walk that script, ours included, deserves your shortlist.
Bring one of your protocols to a ten-minute demo and watch BoneArc track every RTM billing gate on a real patient, end to end.
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What is the difference between BoneArc and Limber Health?
BoneArc is a purpose-built RTM billing engine for independent PT and orthopedic practices, automating the RTM billing gates and producing an audit-ready certified record, priced per active patient. Limber Health pairs a digital home-exercise platform with MSK outcomes programs, built around payer and health-system partnerships, with RTM supported alongside that HEP core.
Does Limber Health support RTM billing?
It supports RTM workflows as part of its digital MSK program. Because its center of gravity is the home-exercise and outcomes experience plus payer/system partnerships, ask directly how consent, data-day thresholds, management time, and the monthly call attestation are tracked per patient.
Is BoneArc or Limber Health better for an independent practice?
For an independent practice focused on capturing RTM revenue on its own panel, BoneArc's narrower billing-gate focus and per-patient pricing tend to fit better. Limber Health suits a group building a payer-aligned digital MSK program where RTM is one part of a broader outcomes relationship.
Can physical therapists bill RTM through either platform?
RTM eligibility for therapists comes from CMS policy (billed under a therapy plan of care with the GP modifier), not from either vendor. The real question for each platform is how well it represents the plan of care and PT-specific workflow rather than a generic remote-monitoring model.
How does pricing compare?
BoneArc publishes graduated per-active-patient pricing starting at $15/patient/month (bonearc.com/pricing). Limber Health doesn't publish self-serve per-patient pricing; it's typically structured as a payer, system, or group contract. Request a quote from each sized to your actual practice and contracts.