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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Since its coverage by Medicare during the first Trump Administration remote physiologic monitoring has shown growing 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 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 [...]
Journal of Clinical Oncology: Comparing Trends in Telehealth Utilization by Medical Oncology Practices at Stanford Medicine and Mayo Clinic from 2019–2023 This study found that both Stanford Cancer Center and the Mayo Clinic Comprehensive Cancer Center exhibited a similar trend in telemedicine adoption over time. Stanford Medicine and Mayo Clinic exhibited a pattern of [...]