After four 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 support Sec. [...]
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 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 [...]
The Alliance for Connected Care joined more than 300 organizations to Congress urging immediate action on making permanent the telehealth flexibility allowing employers to offer telehealth below the deductible for those enrolled in a HDHP paired with an HSA. Read the full letter here or below:
Letter to Congressional Leaders Stresses Urgency of Reinstating Telehealth Safe Harbor Washington, DC – UPDATED - January 21, 2022 – Today, more than 125 organizations sent a letter to Congress to urge policymakers to reinstate the telehealth safe harbor enacted in the CARES Act that enabled employers and health plans to provide pre-deductible coverage [...]
Letter to Congressional Leaders Stresses Urgency of Impending Expiration of Telehealth Safe Harbor Washington, DC – October 26, 2021 – Today, more than 70 organizations sent a letter to Congress to urge policymakers to address the impending expiration of the telehealth safe harbor enacted in the CARES Act that enabled employers and insurers to provide [...]