After many 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 [...]
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 [...]
The Alliance for Connected Care submitted input on the Office of National Drug Control Policy’s 2026 National Drug Control Strategy. The Alliance emphasized the importance of maintaining comprehensive access to telehealth, because it is often an essential part of treatment for mental health conditions and substance use disorders and supports long-term recovery. The Alliance urged ONDCP [...]
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 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 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 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 congratulates Dr. Mehmet Oz on being confirmed as the Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). We look forward to working with Dr. Oz in continuing the transformation of health care in the United States, through technology-enabled care that meets patients where they are and creates cost-saving efficiencies for the [...]
The Alliance appreciates the DEA’s forward movement on telemedicine prescribing of controlled substances policy. However, the Alliance continues to be concerned to see language in the proposed rulemaking mandating in-person visits as this is not an appropriate guardrail for a telehealth service. Similarly, restricting the geography in which telemedicine can be offered undermines the value [...]