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 for Connected Care sent a letter to Congressional leaders requesting their continued bipartisan leadership in assuring the public that access to telehealth services will not be allowed to lapse on December 31. Read the full letter here or below:
The Alliance for Connected Care led more than 150 stakeholder organizations in a letter requesting that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to take action on preserving the benefits of telehealth by ensuring telehealth practitioners working from a home-based (or other) location do not need to report that private residence to the federal [...]
The Alliance for Connected Care sent a letter to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) regarding ongoing decisions by CMS that will dramatically increase administrative burden for both practitioners offering telehealth services and CMS itself through the requirements for the reporting of multiple addresses for a clinician offering telehealth. CMS currently allows [...]
The Alliance for Connected Care submitted comments on the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (PFS) Proposed Rule for calendar year (CY) 2024, which includes several important reforms with respect to telehealth. The Alliance emphasized the following overarching priorities: The Alliance appreciates and supports the proposal from CMS to pay claims billed with POS 10 [...]
The Alliance for Connected Care submitted comments on the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (PFS) Proposed Rule for calendar year (CY) 2023, which includes several important reforms with respect to telehealth. The Alliance emphasized the following overarching priorities: While we appreciate and support the effort from CMS to create more temporary Category 3 codes [...]