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
Connected Care Updates – March 20
This update includes: Sign On Letter Opportunities Release of Congressional Justifications MedPAC Report and notable research and news developments
Connected Care Updates – March 13
This update includes: Sign-on letter opportunities Alliance executive director speaks on an Interstate telehealth panel Introduced legislation White House Budget and notable research and news developments
Connected Care Updates – March 6
This update includes: Alliance summaries of the DEA NPRM Sen. Warner Statement on DEA NPRM Lawmakers on Both Sides Don't Like DEA's New Telehealth Rules Sign-on opportunity to support the telehealth benefit expansion workers act and notable research and news developments
Connected Care Updates – February 27
This update includes: Alliance for Connected Care letter for MAC Meeting DEA NPRM for Telemedicine Prescribing of Controlled Substances HRSA Request to Extend Telehealth Outcome Measures Introduced Telehealth Legislation and notable research and news developments
Drug Enforcement Administration Notice of Proposed Rulemaking Summary
Telemedicine prescribing of controlled substances when the practitioner and the patient have not had a prior in-person medical evaluation (RIN: 1117-AB40)Drug Enforcement Administration Notice of Proposed RulemakingPublic comments due March 31, 2023DEA Resources: Rule Text Highlights for Medical PractitionersDEA Summary ChartSee companion buprenorphine rule summary hereProposed Rule OverviewThe Ryan Haight Act of 2008 directed the DEA Administrator, in conjunction with the Secretary of Health and Human Services ("Secretary"), to promulgate rules that would allow practitioners to treat patients via telemedicine using controlled substances without having had an in-person evaluation in certain circumstances. Federal statute authorized this regulation for telemedicine in [...]