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“Telemedicine stakeholders came up with reams of ideas and data that would pass CBO muster,” said Krista Drobac, the head of the Alliance for Connected Care, a trade group for the telehealth industry. Read Article

“We feel like it’s going to be really negative for consumers,” said Krista Drobac, executive director of the Alliance for Connected Care, a Washington, D.C.-based lobbying group for the growing telehealth industry.” Read Article

“We are expecting to get extremely busy post-SGR,” said Krista Drobac, who represents an array of health care interests at Sirona Strategies, which she cofounded with Kristen Ratcliff. Still, Drobac added, “I think it’ll be pretty hard to rival the urgency of the SGR.” Read Article

Kristen Ratcliff, a partner at lobbying firm Sirona Strategies, which manages the telehealth trade group Alliance for Connected Care, called the bill “a significant opportunity for all types of vendors—health IT vendors, telehealth providers, predictive analytic companies and more.” Read Article

“Really the essence is state innovation. And it, at its core, permits state governments to use funding that would otherwise have gone to individuals and businesses to aggregate that funding to create different ways to cover people,” said Krista Drobac, Partner at Sirona Strategies. Read Article