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
Over 150 Stakeholders Send Letter to DEA
The Alliance for Connected Care led a letter, signed by more than 150 organizations, to the Attorney General Pam Bondi requesting her leadership in maintaining the access to telehealth that President Trump initiated during his first term. More than 150 organizations have signed this letter, including business groups like the Small Business & Entrepreneurship Council and Consumer Technology Association, pharmacy experts like the American Pharmacists Association and American Association of Psychiatric Pharmacists, mental health organizations like the National Council for Mental Wellbeing and Inseparable, health systems like Johns Hopkins and the University of Mississippi Medical Center, and aging organizations like the [...]
Association Between Telehealth Use and Downstream 30-Day Medicare Spending
medRxiv: Association Between Telehealth Use and Downstream 30-Day Medicare Spending The objective of this study was to investigate whether healthcare visits initiated by telehealth had higher or lower 30-day spending compared to in-person-initiated visits. The study compared the overall spending, rates of return visits, laboratory tests, and imaging procedures within 30 days for Medicare fee-for-service patients who underwent in-person and telehealth evaluations between July 1, 2020 and December 31, 2022. Telehealth-initiated episodes of care were associated with lower 30-day Medicare spending and reduced utilization of labs and imaging. These findings suggest that telehealth, when used as a substitute for [...]
Alliance Submits Statement for the Ways and Means Health Subcommittee Hearing on Modernizing American Health Care
The Alliance for Connected Care submitted a statement for the record for the House Ways and Means, Subcommittee on Health hearing, "Modernizing American Health Care: Creating Healthy Options and Better Incentives” on February 11, 2025. "Telehealth has supported greater access to care nationwide, including for the more than 30 million Americans in Medicare and many of the 33 million Americans with High-Deductible Health Plans and Health Savings Accounts.... "While we deeply appreciate Congressional action to extend Medicare telehealth provisions through March 31, 2025, this was unfortunately only part of the extension needed to preserve full access to telehealth services. It [...]
Alliance Statement – DRUG ENFORCEMENT ADMINISTRATION (DEA) RELEASES SPECIAL REGISTRATION PROPOSAL
ALLIANCE STATEMENT DRUG ENFORCEMENT ADMINISTRATION (DEA) RELEASES SPECIAL REGISTRATION PROPOSAL JANUARY 2025 The Alliance for Connected Care appreciates the Drug Enforcement Administration’s (DEA) forward movement on telemedicine prescribing of controlled substances policy. Today, the DEA released a notice of proposed rulemaking, which would establish a special registration framework and authorize three types of special registrations for telemedicine. We are pleased to see the DEA propose a special registration, as required by statute, to allow comprehensive medical care through telemedicine, including Schedule II medications. These treatments are important in providing mental health, end-of-life care, substance use treatment, and many other services. [...]