In the CY 2024 PFS final rule (88 FR 78877), we solicited comments from interested parties on how practitioners have been ensuring that Medicare beneficiaries receive subsequent inpatient and nursing facility visits, as well as critical care consultation services since the expiration of the PHE
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CMS also welcomes comments on the alternative policy described in the revised Medicare Part D Drug Inflation Rebate Guidance whereby CMS would treat drugs first approved or licensed on or before October 1, 2021, that were not marketed until after that date in the same manner as subsequently approved drugs for purposes of establishing the payment amount benchmark period, benchmark period CPI-U, first applicable period, and first applicable period CPI-U
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The impact on the ACO's performance may be partially mitigated if the SAHS billing activity also increases the ACO's regional service area expenditures and the national expenditures used to calculate the two-way national-regional blended benchmark update factor
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