Stakeholders Across Health Care Raise Concerns About the CY 2027 Medicare Proposals In the Calendar Year (CY) 2027 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule proposed rule, CMS proposed significant changes to Medicare remote physiologic monitoring (RPM) and remote therapeutic monitoring (RTM). The proposals address how remote monitoring services are delivered, staffed, initiated, and reimbursed. Across publicly [...]
CMS’s proposed remote monitoring policies could dismantle established RPM and RTM programs and disrupt care for approximately one million Medicare beneficiaries. Below is an updated list of advocacy pathways for general engagement on the Medicare payment rule. Alliance Advocacy Center: connectwithcare.org/rpm
The Alliance for Connected Care submitted virtual care recommendations to the Healthcare Advisory Committee for consideration during it August 31, 2026 meeting. Virtual care tools, such as telehealth, remote monitoring, and AI-enabled tools, closely align with the Administration’s goal to empower patients to take their health back into their hands through technology-enabled tools. Telehealth and [...]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 23, 2026 Coalition of More Than 200 Health Care Organizations Delivers Telehealth Voters Pledge to Congress Patients, clinicians, and health system leaders join Members of Congress on Capitol Hill to call for permanent Medicare telehealth access Patients, clinicians, and healthcare leaders today delivered the Telehealth Voters Pledge to Members of Congress [...]
The Alliance for Connected Care applauds the House Ways and Means Committee for advancing the bipartisan Rural Patient Monitoring Access Act (H.R. 3108) by a vote of 39-0. The legislation would help address geographic reimbursement disparities that can discourage rural providers from offering this important care. RPM gives clinicians real-time insight into changes in [...]
The Alliance for Connected Care submitted a letter to CMS urging additional regulatory changes to digital health rules in the Physician Fee Schedule, ensuring patients and providers alike have access to health care where and when they need it. In our advocacy for a more connected health care system, the Alliance calls on CMS [...]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEAlliance for Connected Care Urges HHS to Modernize Payment and Regulation to Support Responsible AI-Enabled CareWashington, DC — The Alliance for Connected Care today submitted formal comments to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) in response to the AI in Clinical Care Request for Information, calling for a modern, modality-agnostic regulatory [...]
The Alliance for Connected Care responded to the Contract Year 2027 Policy and Technical Changes to the Medicare Advantage Program, Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit Program, and Medicare Cost Plan Program proposed rule, which contained a Request for Information (RFI) on the future direction of Medicare Advantage. The Alliance urged CMS to update network adequacy [...]
The Alliance for Connected Care responded to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Calendar Year (CY) 2026 Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment proposed rule. The Alliance urged CMS to recognize payment for genetic counselors providing care virtually, expand its proposal on virtual cardiac rehabilitation, and allow for outpatient reimbursement for RPM care management [...]
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 [...]