The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) provided a response to our letter. See here for the response from CMS. The Alliance for Connected Care sent a letter to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) regarding the consideration of new telehealth codes as proposed by the American Medical Association (AMA) [...]
The Alliance for Connected Care sent a letter to the American Medical Association's (AMA) CPT Editorial Panel in response to its February 2024 meeting agenda, which includes Tab 50 - Remote Monitoring. The public agenda seems to indicate major revisions to remote physiologic monitoring (RPM) and remote therapeutic monitoring (RTM). The Alliance is concerned [...]
This update includes: Alliance Response to OIG RPM Alert OMB Releases Regulatory Agenda for Fall 2023 Hearing on the SUPPORT for Patients and Communities Reauthorization Act (S. 3393) And Other Legislation E&C Advances Bills to Increase Patients’ Access to Health Care and notable research and news developments
This update includes: Alliance Submits Statement for the Record for Senate Finance Health Hearing on Medicare Telehealth CMS released the Notice of Benefit and Payment Parameters for 2025 Proposed Rule House Energy & Commerce Committee: Health Subcommittee Markup Hearing and notable research and news developments
The Alliance for Connected Care submitted a statement for the record to the Senate Finance Committee, Subcommittee on Health for the hearing, "Ensuring Medicare Beneficiary Access: A Path to Telehealth Permanency." The Alliance focused its comments on: Recommendations for a permanent telehealth expansion that Congress should consider, including steps to ensure equitable access; Other [...]
This update includes: #AllianceTurns10 Senate Finance Committee Holds Telehealth Hearing Senate Finance Committee Passes Mental Health Legislation and notable research and news developments
This update includes: Alliance Co-Leads 112 Organizations Requesting Telehealth Practitioners Privacy Are Protected NIH Study Found Telehealth Supported Retention in Treatment for OUD HHS Released Resource on Privacy and notable research and news developments
Read the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services' response to our comments here. The Alliance for Connected Care, in partnership with the American Telemedicine Association, led 112 organizations in a letter requesting that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to take action on preserving the benefits of telehealth by ensuring telehealth practitioners [...]
The Alliance for Connected Care led a letter urging House and Senate leaders to support the passage of the Telehealth Expansion Act of 2023 (H.R. 1843/S. 1001). This is legislation which the House Ways & Means Committee advanced on a bipartisan basis earlier this year. The Telehealth Expansion Act of 2023 is a bipartisan, [...]