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 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 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 for Connected Care joined more than 300 organizations to Congress urging immediate action on making permanent the telehealth flexibility allowing employers to offer telehealth below the deductible for those enrolled in a HDHP paired with an HSA. Read the full letter here or below:
The Alliance for Connected Care is pleased to support the Telehealth Expansion Act of 2023 (H.R. 1843/S. 1001) and applauds Representatives Steel (R-CA), Lee (D-NV), Smith (R-NE), and Schneider (D-IL) and Senators Daines (R-MT) and Cortez Masto (D-NV) for their leadership in introducing this bipartisan, bicameral legislation. This bill would make permanent the CARES Act [...]
The inclusion of a two-year extension of Medicare telehealth and commercial market telehealth flexibilities will make a huge difference to so many Americans. The Alliance for Connected Care has been calling for predictability for patients and clinicians while continuing to work toward permanent telehealth authorization. This gives us both. The package includes a [...]
On November 15, 2022, the Alliance for Connected Care and more than 350 organizations signed a letter urging Congress to extend the telehealth provision that allows employers the flexibility to offer telehealth services pre-deductible to employees with a high deductible health plan coupled with a Health Savings Account (HDHP-HSA). The letter reminds congressional leaders that without [...]
Washington, DC, September 13, 2022 – Today, an astounding 375 organizations sent a joint letter to bipartisan leadership of the U.S. Senate urging action on telehealth legislation this fall. Policy certainty beyond the COVID-19 public health emergency (PHE) is essential to continuing access to telehealth for both Medicare and commercial market patients. The letter urges [...]
The Alliance for Connected Care submitted comments in response to the request for information from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) on strengthening primary health care. The Alliance specifically commented on impact of telehealth in primary care access. The Alliance recommends the HHS to: Prevent restrictions, such as in-person visits requirements [...]
WASHINGTON D.C. July 27, 2022 – The Alliance for Connected Care (the Alliance) applauds U.S. House lawmakers for their commitment to protecting telehealth access through the passage of the Advancing Telehealth Beyond COVID-19 Act of 2022 (H.R. 4040). This legislation would ensure that Medicare beneficiaries continue to have access to telehealth until at [...]