Our Members
The Alliance for Connected Care aims to:
Demonstrate the importance of Connected Care as a tool for improved quality and efficiency.
Build significant and high-level support for Connected Care among leaders in Congress and the Administration.
Enable more telehealth to support new models of care.
Lift geographic and site restrictions for telehealth in Medicare.
Establish a consensus-based, standardized definition of Connected Care to advance with policymakers.
Alliance News
Alliance Letter to HHS OIG on RPM Report
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Inspector General (OIG) responded to the Alliance's letter. The Alliance for Connected Care sent a letter to HHS OIG regarding the report on remote patient monitoring. The Alliance highlights inaccuracies and subjective nature of the report. The Alliance requests HHS OIG to consider retracting the report, and amending it to accurately reflect the way that RPM services are required to be delivered in Medicare, as well as reducing the bias language. Please find the letter here or below.
Letter on House Energy & Commerce Temporary Two-Year Extension
On behalf of the Alliance for Connected Care and the many patients and clinicians we represent, the Alliance wrote to support the Committee’s leadership in working to avert a pending telehealth cliff for Medicare beneficiaries and support bipartisan passage of the Telehealth Modernization Act of 2024 (H.R.7623). In addition to support for the legislation, the Alliance remains concerned with the challenging language on virtual platforms and the incident to language that is restricted to virtual providers.
FAIR Health: Monthly Telehealth Regional Tracker
FAIR Health: Monthly Telehealth Regional Tracker FAIR Health found that in June, telehealth utilization increased nationally and in the West, Northeast and South, but decreased in the Midwest. Nationally, telehealth claim lines rose from 4.82% of medical claim lines in May to 4.89% in June, an increase of 1.5%. In terms of mental health diagnoses, there was no change in the rankings of the top five mental health diagnoses from May to June. Nationally and in every region, the top five mental health diagnoses in both months were generalized anxiety disorder, major depressive disorder, adjustment disorders, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder and [...]
Minnesota Department of Health: Study of Telehealth Expansion and Payment Parity
Minnesota Department of Health: Study of Telehealth Expansion and Payment Parity The Minnesota Department of Health submitted a report to the state legislature and found that telehealth expanded access to health care without appearing to compromise health care quality or patient satisfaction. The Department makes several recommendations, including continuing payment parity, requiring health plans and providers to provide clear and transparent communication about options for telehealth services, ongoing monitoring and policy-relevant research on telehealth, among others.
JAMA Surgery: Teletrauma Use in Emergency Departments
JAMA Surgery: Teletrauma Use in Emergency Departments Nearly 30 million predominantly rural US residents lack timely access to trauma care expertise available at level I or II trauma centers. Telehealth is an established approach to improve access to health care expertise using remote consultation. This survey study found that teletrauma use lagged significantly behind use of other telehealth services in US EDs in 2020. While most EDs using teletrauma were located in rural areas, there was significant state-level variation in teletrauma use. Future research is needed on how teletrauma is being used and to identify barriers to its wider [...]