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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

DRUG ENFORCEMENT ADMINISTRATION (DEA) RELEASES THIRD EXTENSION, ENSURING CERTAINTY AND ACCESS TO PATIENTS

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE MEDIA CONTACT Chris Adamec; cadamec@connectwithcare.org DRUG ENFORCEMENT ADMINISTRATION (DEA) RELEASES THIRD EXTENSION, ENSURING CERTAINTY AND ACCESS TO PATIENTS November 15, 2024 WASHINGTON DC – The Alliance for Connected Care applauds the third temporary extension of controlled substance prescribing via telemedicine rulemaking by the DEA. This one-year extension is an important step to ensure predictable access for patients, as requested by the Alliance for Connected Care and more than 300 other organizations earlier this year. “We are pleased to see the DEA act to ensure patient care is not interrupted next month,” said Chris Adamec, executive director of [...]

November 15th, 2024|

Alliance and Over 150 Organizations Request CMS to Ensure Telehealth Practitioners Location Are Protected

The Alliance for Connected Care led more than 150 stakeholder organizations in a letter requesting that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to take action on preserving the benefits of telehealth by ensuring telehealth practitioners working from a home-based (or other) location do not need to report that private residence to the federal government for purposes of either enrollment or billing. Currently, CMS proposed, in the CY 2025 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule, an extension through 2025 of regulatory flexibility for telehealth practitioners who offer a telehealth service from their home or another location to report their currently enrolled [...]

October 2nd, 2024|

Alliance Letter to HHS OIG on RPM Report

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Inspector General (OIG) responded to the Alliance's letter.  The Alliance for Connected Care sent a letter to HHS OIG regarding the report on remote patient monitoring. The Alliance highlights inaccuracies and subjective nature of the report. The Alliance requests HHS OIG to consider retracting the report, and amending it to accurately reflect the way that RPM services are required to be delivered in Medicare, as well as reducing the bias language. Please find the letter here or below.

September 24th, 2024|

Letter on House Energy & Commerce Temporary Two-Year Extension

On behalf of the Alliance for Connected Care and the many patients and clinicians we represent, the Alliance wrote to support the Committee’s leadership in working to avert a pending telehealth cliff for Medicare beneficiaries and support bipartisan passage of the Telehealth Modernization Act of 2024 (H.R.7623). In addition to support for the legislation, the Alliance remains concerned with the challenging language on virtual platforms and the incident to language that is restricted to virtual providers.

September 17th, 2024|

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