The Alliance for Connected Care and over 150 stakeholders sent a letter to CMS thanking the agency for its leadership in creating location reporting flexibility for practitioners with an in-person practice location. In addition to this recognition, signers request that CMS begin work on a low-burden means of addressing these concerns for fully remote [...]
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 [...]
The Alliance for Connected Care responded to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Calendar Year (CY) 2026 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule proposed rule. The Alliance respectfully urged CMS to continue to work with Congress and other federal agencies to ensure long-term certainty and access to the full spectrum of virtual care options for [...]
The Alliance for Connected Care sent a letter, expressing concern with the omission of a continuation of telehealth location reporting flexibility for telehealth practitioners in the proposed CY2026 Physician Fee Schedule. Without prompt action by CMS, this important telehealth policy will end and dramatically increase administrative burden for both practitioners offering telehealth services while [...]
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 [...]
The Alliance submitted a response to the Department of Justice Anticompetitive Regulations Task Force request for public comment to identify unnecessary laws and regulations that raise the highest barriers to competition. The Alliance for Connected Care (the “Alliance”) outlines four areas where we hope the Department of Justice Task Force will focus to improve care [...]
The Alliance submitted a response to the Federal Trade Commission's request for public comment regarding reducing anti-competitive regulatory barriers in health care. Our health care system is deeply impacted by anticompetitive practices. The Alliance appreciates the Federal Trade Commission’s long-standing work to reform occupational licensing regulations, removing anticompetitive practices. In particular, the FTC investigated options [...]
The Alliance for Connected Care sent a letter to Congressional leaders requesting their continued bipartisan leadership in assuring the public that access to telehealth services will not be allowed to lapse on December 31. Read the full letter here or below:
The Alliance for Connected Care led more than 150 stakeholder 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 [...]