Alliance Urges DOJ Anticompetitive Regulations Task Force to Address Anticompetitive Practices

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 [...]

2025-05-28T10:15:31-04:00May 27th, 2025|

Alliance Urges Federal Trade Commission to Address Anticompetitive Practices

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 [...]

2025-05-28T10:11:19-04:00May 27th, 2025|

WEBINAR: The Time Is Now: Modernizing Care Through Remote Monitoring – June 11

Since its coverage by Medicare during the first Trump Administration remote physiologic monitoring has shown 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 [...]

2025-05-27T16:30:54-04:00May 27th, 2025|

The Rural Patient Monitoring Access Act

April 30, 2025  - Senators Marsha Blackburn, Mark Warner, and Representatives David Kustoff,  Mark Pocan, Troy Balderson, and Don Davis introduced the Rural Patient Monitoring (RPM) Access Act, which would ensure Medicare patients in rural and underserved communities have access to remote physiologic monitoring services, which lower costs and improve access to care by using technology to collect and transmit patient health data to healthcare providers.

2025-05-19T16:52:48-04:00May 1st, 2025|

Alliance Letter to HHS OIG on RPM Report

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Inspector General (OIG) responded to the Alliance's letter. The Alliance for Connected Care sent a letter to HHS OIG regarding the report on remote patient monitoring. The Alliance highlights inaccuracies and subjective nature of the report. The Alliance requests HHS OIG to consider [...]

2024-12-11T22:24:58-04:00September 24th, 2024|

The Future of Remote Physiologic Monitoring and Current Medicare Cuts

The Alliance for Connected Care led a group letter, calling attention to the need for strong CMS support of patient access to remote monitoring services that are vital in prevention and treatment for Medicare beneficiaries. The letter was submitted to CMS through the PFS public comment process. In the Calendar Year (CY) 2025 Medicare Physician [...]

2024-09-10T16:28:22-04:00September 9th, 2024|

Alliance Submits Letter to AMA On Remote Monitoring

The Alliance for Connected Care sent a letter to the American Medical Association’s (AMA) CPT Editorial Panel in response to its May 2024 meeting agenda, which includes Tab 38 – Remote Monitoring. The Alliance appreciates the consideration of stakeholder feedback into the revised proposal to ensure coding for remote physiologic monitoring (RPM) and remote [...]

2024-07-01T11:21:50-04:00April 25th, 2024|

Alliance for Connected Care Urges AMA to Ensure Coding for RPM and RTM Accurately Represents Clinical Utilization

The Alliance for Connected Care sent a letter to the American Medical Association's (AMA) CPT Editorial Panel in response to its February 2024 meeting agenda, which includes Tab 50 - Remote Monitoring. The public agenda seems to indicate major revisions to remote physiologic monitoring (RPM) and remote therapeutic monitoring (RTM). The Alliance is concerned [...]

2024-07-01T12:25:14-04:00January 18th, 2024|

Alliance for Connected Care and the American Telemedicine Association Disappointed in the Process for the Multi-Jurisdictional Contractor Advisory Committee on RPMs

The Alliance for Connected Care and the American Telemedicine Association sent a letter expressing disappointment in the process for evaluating Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) and Remote Therapeutic Monitoring (RTM). The letter states that the time allotted to subject matter experts is not adequate and expresses concern about the bibliography provided to meeting participants last week, which is missing at least 45 studies by [...]

2024-04-18T11:57:37-04:00February 21st, 2023|
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