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
CMS ENDS KEY FLEXIBILITY ENABLING MORE AFTER-HOURS TELEHEALTH, ADDS NEW BURDENS ON CLINICANS
ALLIANCE STATEMENT NOVEMBER 3, 2025 The Alliance for Connected Care is disappointed that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced changes that will make it more difficult for a Medicare-enrolled practitioner to offer telehealth services from an alternative location. CMS plans to change billing rules, enabled by the Trump Administration in 2020, that allowed clinicians to be more available to their patients through telehealth when they are not in the office – such as after-hours telehealth visits from their homes. For the past five years, CMS has allowed a telehealth practitioner to report and bill using their currently [...]
Alliance Letter to Congressional Leadership Urging Retroactive Payment for Medicare Telehealth Services
The Alliance for Connected Care sent a letter to Congressional leadership, urging immediate action to clarify that retroactive payment will be offered for expanded telehealth services provided during the lapsed period due to the government shutdown.
Alliance and 60 Organizations Letter to Congress Urging Urgent Action for Patient Access to Medicare Telehealth Services
The Alliance for Connected Care and 60 organizations, sent a letter to Congressional leadership, urging for immediate action to mitigate the negative impacts on Medicare beneficiaries as a result of the government shutdown and related lapse in Medicare telehealth flexibilities.
Alliance Sends Letter to Governors Rural Health Transformation Fund
The Alliance for Connected Care sent a letter to Governors, highlighting an important opportunity to prioritize new and emerging technologies and data and technology-driven solutions that help rural providers furnish high-quality health care services. The Alliance strongly encouraged States to consider: Support for state action to design and implement telehealth registry capabilities that enable more cross-border care; Support for rural hospitals to better leverage out-of-state specialists through telehealth to augment their community capabilities; Efforts to expand national clinical trial participation at rural hospitals; Facilitate the cross-border sharing of prescription data for safety, and/or Funding to leverage remote physiologic monitoring [...]
Alliance for Connected Care Response to CY26 OPPS
The Alliance for Connected Care responded to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Calendar Year (CY) 2026 Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment proposed rule. The Alliance urged CMS to recognize payment for genetic counselors providing care virtually, expand its proposal on virtual cardiac rehabilitation, and allow for outpatient reimbursement for RPM care management services. We believe these steps will improve the overall quality of care, lower costs, and improve the experience of Medicare beneficiaries. Read the full letter here or below: