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Alliance for Connected Care Leads 350 Health Care Stakeholders Urging Congress to Extend Medicare Telehealth Access Before September 2025 Deadline

In a strong show of national consensus, 350 health care stakeholder organizations have signed a letter urging Congressional leadership to take immediate action to preserve access to Medicare telehealth services beyond their scheduled expiration in September 2025. The letter calls on Congress to enact the longest possible extension of existing telehealth authorities, with a [...]

2025-08-14T21:25:02-04:00August 11th, 2025|

Alliance Asks Congress to Differentiate Medicare Telehealth “Cliff” from Federal Funding Deadlines

The Alliance for Connected Care sent letters to Congress asking that Congress work to differentiate the Medicare telehealth “cliff” from the federal funding deadlines.  If there is a short extension until December, we ask that you seek to mitigate the significant patient/provider disruption caused by the potential for a lapse. Senate Finance Committee House [...]

2025-08-08T10:23:08-04:00August 7th, 2025|

Alliance Leads Over 200 Organizations Letter to New DEA Administrator on Telehealth

The Alliance for Connected Care led a letter signed by over 200 organizations in a letter to Terry Cole, Administrator of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), requesting his leadership in ensuring that millions of Americans continue to have access to medically necessary health care through telemedicine after the current access deadline of December 31, [...]

2025-07-22T16:40:36-04:00July 22nd, 2025|

Alliance for Connected Care Urges for Removal of Antiquated Restrictions that Stifles Innovation

The Alliance for Connected Care submitted comments to the Ensuring Lawful Regulation and Unleashing Innovation To Make America Healthy Again Request for Information. Under the first Trump Administration, led by Seema Verma, telehealth and virtual care expanded, supporting greater access to care nationwide, including for the more than 30 million Americans in Medicare and [...]

2025-11-03T22:50:47-04:00July 14th, 2025|

Alliance Coleads Letter in Support of Telehealth Commercial Market

After many years of advocacy, over 32 million individuals will be able to permanently receive pre-deductible coverage of telehealth services. On July 3, 2025, Congress passed H.R. 1, which includes Section 71306, allowing for permanent extension of this important telehealth policy. The Alliance for Connected Care joined other leading digital health associations to [...]

2025-07-11T16:33:54-04:00June 29th, 2025|

Health Affairs Scholar: Prevalence of interstate telehealth comparing internet protocol and home address

Health Affairs Scholar: Prevalence of interstate telehealth comparing internet protocol and home address This study used geolocation data that contain patient internet protocol (IP) addresses from our academic health center's telehealth vendor to more precisely estimate interstate telehealth rates during the period where state waivers allowed for interstate care. Many patients value telehealth precisely [...]

2025-07-17T10:18:18-04:00June 26th, 2025|

Alliance Urges House Ways and Means Health Subcommittee to Harness the Power of Digital Health Data Through Telehealth and RPM

The Alliance for Connected Care submitted comments to the House Ways and Means Health Subcommittee for its hearing, "Health at Your Fingertips: Harnessing the Power of Digital Health Data" on June 25, 2025. Advancements in digital health have leveraged greater flexibility in care, optimized the remote workforce to meet America's health needs, and enhanced seamless [...]

2025-06-27T14:59:15-04:00June 25th, 2025|

Alliance Urges ONDCP to Work and Maintain Comprehensive Access to Telehealth

The Alliance for Connected Care submitted input on the Office of National Drug Control Policy’s 2026 National Drug Control Strategy. The Alliance emphasized the importance of maintaining comprehensive access to telehealth, because it is often an essential part of treatment for mental health conditions and substance use disorders and supports long-term recovery. The Alliance urged ONDCP [...]

2025-06-20T11:55:22-04:00June 20th, 2025|

Alliance Urges Senate Finance Committee on Commercial Market Telehealth

The Senate draft bill includes a permanent extension, with a retroactive start beginning December 31, 2024.  The Alliance for Connected Care sent a letter to the Senate Finance Committee Republicans, urging for reconsideration the omission of commercial market telehealth flexibility in the reconciliation package.  Employers and health plans need certainty around the availability of these [...]

2025-06-28T10:18:44-04:00June 17th, 2025|

Alliance Calls on CMS to Modernize the Delivery of Health Care to Unlock Full Potential of Digital Health

The Alliance for Connected Care submitted comments to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), Assistant Secretary for Technology Policy/Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ASTP/ONC), Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Health Technology Ecosystem request for information. The Alliance believes that the delivery of health care should be seamless [...]

2025-11-03T22:51:19-04:00June 16th, 2025|
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