The alternative payment mechanisms on which we seek comments are described below: Infrastructure Payments: Under these arrangements, CMS makes a payment to the ACO, in addition to FFS reimbursement to the providers and suppliers participating in the ACO, that is unrelated to claims
We further remind readers that submissions ( reflecting practitioner services furnished to Medicare beneficiaries are helpful in our considerations
Oxidative DNA damage estimated by urinary 8-Hydroxy-2' Deoxyguanosine (8-OHdG) and 8-Oxoguanine DNA Glycosylase (OGG1) in cigarette and non-cigarette smokers in South West Nigeria
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Specifically, we are proposing that, beginning with the CY 2024 performance period/2026 MIPS payment year, we may reweight one or more of the performance categories (specifically, quality, improvement activities, or Promoting Interoperability), where we determine, based on information submitted to us on or before November 1st of the year preceding the relevant MIPS payment year, that data for a MIPS eligible clinician are inaccessible or unable to be submitted due to circumstances outside of the control of the clinician because the MIPS eligible clinician delegated submission of the data to their third party intermediary, evidenced by a written agreement between the MIPS eligible clinician and third party intermediary, and the third party intermediary did not submit the data for the performance category(ies) on behalf of the MIPS eligible clinician in accordance with applicable deadlines