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
Journal of Cardiac Failure: Leveraging Remote Patient Monitoring to Effectively Put the Heart Failure Guidelines to Practice
Journal of Cardiac Failure: Leveraging Remote Patient Monitoring to Effectively Put the Heart Failure Guidelines to Practice Guideline directed medical therapy (GDMT) effectively reduces morbidity and mortality for patients with heart failure (HF). Unfortunately, despite clear recommendations for initiating and titrating GDMT, optimization of GDMT in HF patients nationwide is staggeringly low. Remote patient monitoring (RPM) has helped address these challenges and resulted in improved care for HF patients. Further adoption of comprehensive RPM and centralized medication titration by health systems is required to close care gaps, improve outcomes, and reduce cost. Additional coverage can be found on Fierce [...]
JAMA Health Forum: Audio-Only Telehealth Use Among Traditional Medicare Beneficiaries
JAMA Health Forum: Audio-Only Telehealth Use Among Traditional Medicare Beneficiaries Medicare expanded telehealth coverage during the COVID-19 pandemic, including for audio-only visits. In this cross-sectional study, telehealth visits as a proportion of all E&M visits and audio-only visits as a proportion of all telehealth visits decreased from 2020 to 2022. Nevertheless, audio-only visits represented a quarter of all telehealth visits in 2022. Compared with beneficiaries who received only in-person care or audiovisual visits in addition to in-person care, those who received audio-only care were more likely to be African American or Black, have medically complex conditions, and be dually [...]
Over 380 Clinicians Send Letter to DEA
Over 380 clinicians and practitioners signed a letter, requesting the DEA to issue a revised proposed rule to regulate the prescribing of controlled substances through telehealth as soon as possible to ensure adequate time for patients to continue existing care. To read a full copy of the stakeholder letter, please click here.
Letter on House W&M Temporary Two-Year Extension
On behalf of the Alliance for Connected Care and the many patients and clinicians we represent, I am writing to share our appreciation for your leadership in advancing important telehealth access – building on the dynamic hearing this spring on care in the home. Most notably, we have supported the Committee’s actions to avert the coming telehealth cliff on December 31, 2024 – both through the advancement of commercial market telehealth last year and now with a two-year extension of Medicare telehealth access.
Foley & Lardner LLP: 2024 50-State Telehealth Survey
Foley & Lardner LLP: 2024 50-State Telehealth Survey Foley & Lardner LLP released the third edition of its 50-State Survey of Telehealth Insurance Laws, which provides a detailed report on each state’s telehealth commercial insurance coverage and payment/reimbursement laws and compares these laws before and after the Public Health Emergency (PHE). Notable changes from pre-PHE to post-PHE include: Additional restrictions on exclusive telehealth platform arrangements allow clinics and hospitals to make individual decisions that best suit their patients; Audio-only, or phone call, coverage becomes a permanent fixture, helping people in rural areas to receive care; Payment parity (reimbursing at [...]