In January, Brian King, the director of the FDAs Center for Tobacco Products, said the agency was committed to completing the rulemaking process for the ban in 2023
Yet this striking success has been largely ignored by the rest of the world
Therefore, to remain consistent and transparent in the pricing of PXR services, we are proposing to revise language in our Medicare Claims Processing manual (Chapter 13, 90.3 and Chapter 23, 30.5) to reflect any updates to our guidance for these services
We also established in our regulation at 414.1405(g) that, for each of the 2024, 2025, and 2026 MIPS payment years, the performance threshold would be the mean of the final scores for all MIPS eligible clinicians from a prior period
Regular exposure to secondhand smoke may also expose the body to harmful chemicals linked to reproductive health concerns