The Alliance for Connected Care submitted a statement for the record to the Senate Finance Committee, Subcommittee on Health for the hearing, "Ensuring Medicare Beneficiary Access: A Path to Telehealth Permanency." The Alliance focused its comments on: Recommendations for a permanent telehealth expansion that Congress should consider, including steps to ensure equitable access; Other non-Medicare recommendations that we believe Congress should prioritize; and While we generally do not believe additional telehealth guardrails are needed, we offer some options that would be operationally feasible for health care organizations to implement without significantly disrupting patient access to care. Read the full [...]

The Alliance for Connected Care, in partnership with the American Telemedicine Association, led 112 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 allows practitioners to render telehealth services from their home without reporting their home address on their Medicare enrollment or billing paperwork. This will end on December 31, 2023.  The current location-based [...]