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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
Alliance Leads 450 Stakeholders in Request for Long-Term Fix to Medicare Telehealth
The Alliance for Connected Care co-led a letter, urging federal policymakers to enact a long-term fix for telehealth coverage for Medicare. Over 450 organizations spanning health care providers, digital health innovators, patient and provider advocacy organizations press Congress to immediately act on a long-term telehealth fix in its next legislative package to ensure stability and provide clarity for patients, providers and the health care system as a whole. Congress has extended telehealth flexibilities multiple times immediately prior to the looming deadlines. Unfortunately, failure to do so this year has led to an abrupt end to telehealth services for millions [...]
Alliance Joins Letter In Support of the States Handling Access to Reciprocity for Employment (SHARE) Act of 2025
The Alliance for Connected Care joined over 35 organizations in a stakeholder letter supporting the States Handling Access to Reciprocity for Employment (SHARE) Act of 2025. The bill would authorize states to access the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s (FBI) criminal history records for professional licensing under interstate compacts to overcome current challenges and facilitate seamless and efficient background checks for multistate or reciprocal licenses. Read the letter here or below:
CMS ENDS KEY FLEXIBILITY ENABLING MORE AFTER-HOURS TELEHEALTH, ADDS NEW BURDENS ON CLINICANS
ALLIANCE STATEMENT NOVEMBER 3, 2025 The Alliance for Connected Care is disappointed that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced changes that will make it more difficult for a Medicare-enrolled practitioner to offer telehealth services from an alternative location. CMS plans to change billing rules, enabled by the Trump Administration in 2020, that allowed clinicians to be more available to their patients through telehealth when they are not in the office – such as after-hours telehealth visits from their homes. For the past five years, CMS has allowed a telehealth practitioner to report and bill using their currently [...]
Alliance Letter to Congressional Leadership Urging Retroactive Payment for Medicare Telehealth Services
The Alliance for Connected Care sent a letter to Congressional leadership, urging immediate action to clarify that retroactive payment will be offered for expanded telehealth services provided during the lapsed period due to the government shutdown.
Alliance and 60 Organizations Letter to Congress Urging Urgent Action for Patient Access to Medicare Telehealth Services
The Alliance for Connected Care and 60 organizations, sent a letter to Congressional leadership, urging for immediate action to mitigate the negative impacts on Medicare beneficiaries as a result of the government shutdown and related lapse in Medicare telehealth flexibilities.