Our Members
The Alliance for Connected Care aims to:
Demonstrate the importance of Connected Care as a tool for improved quality and efficiency.
Build significant and high-level support for Connected Care among leaders in Congress and the Administration.
Enable more telehealth to support new models of care.
Lift geographic and site restrictions for telehealth in Medicare.
Establish a consensus-based, standardized definition of Connected Care to advance with policymakers.
Alliance News
Alliance Urges IRS to Act on Telehealth in 2025-2026 Priority Guidance Plan
The Alliance urged the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to include guidance on an expired pandemic-era policy that enabled employers to provide telehealth services on a pre-deductible basis to individuals with high-deductible health plans coupled with a health savings account (HDHP-HSA) in its 2025-2026 Priority Guidance Plan. As you may know, Section 3701 of the CARES Act created a temporary safe harbor that allowed employers and health plans to provide pre-deductible coverage of telehealth services for individuals with a high-deductible health plan coupled with a health savings account (HDHP-HSA) for the more than 32 million Americans. In December 2022, Congress extended [...]
Alliance Urges DOJ Anticompetitive Regulations Task Force to Address Anticompetitive Practices
The Alliance submitted a response to the Department of Justice Anticompetitive Regulations Task Force request for public comment to identify unnecessary laws and regulations that raise the highest barriers to competition. The Alliance for Connected Care (the “Alliance”) outlines four areas where we hope the Department of Justice Task Force will focus to improve care for patients, and ease the burden for providers.
Alliance Urges Federal Trade Commission to Address Anticompetitive Practices
The Alliance submitted a response to the Federal Trade Commission's request for public comment regarding reducing anti-competitive regulatory barriers in health care. Our health care system is deeply impacted by anticompetitive practices. The Alliance appreciates the Federal Trade Commission’s long-standing work to reform occupational licensing regulations, removing anticompetitive practices. In particular, the FTC investigated options to enhance occupational license portability in 2017, which acknowledged that individual state licensing regulations reduced access to critical services, like telehealth, or increased prices to ordinary consumers. The FTC’s Economic Liberty Task Force held a roundtable, which examined ways to mitigate the negative effects of [...]
WEBINAR: The Time Is Now: Modernizing Care Through Remote Monitoring – June 11
Since its coverage by Medicare during the first Trump Administration remote physiologic monitoring has shown adoption and strong clinical outcomes. Many primary care providers, cardiologists, and others utilize RPM for patients with chronic conditions like hypertension, diabetes, and heart disease, which are common and costly in the Medicare population. These services are turning the tide in reducing unnecessary and costly emergency department and hospitalization episodes. During this session, panelists will discuss the latest data around remote physiologic monitoring outcomes, speak to current models for patient care, and discuss some of the latest issues around policy and reimbursement. Register Here [...]
Peterson Health Technology Institute (PHTI): Virtual Solutions for Depression and Anxiety
Peterson Health Technology Institute (PHTI): Virtual Solutions for Depression and Anxiety The Peterson Health Technology Institute (PHTI) released its report on virtual solutions for depression and anxiety that include on-demand, digital content and activities used on their own or in combination with therapy and medication. PHTI found virtual mental health tools demonstrated clinically meaningful reductions in depression and anxiety scores that were comparable to traditional therapy.