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 [...]
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 [...]
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 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 [...]
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.