When a Part B rebatable drug's code dose description changes, CMS proposes to codify in 427.304(a) policies established in section 50.9 of the revised Medicare Part B Drug Inflation Rebate Guidance and apply a conversion factor within the rebate calculation, when applicable

Specifically, beginning with the CY 2024 performance period/2026 MIPS payment year, we are proposing that we may reweight one or more of the quality, improvement activities, and Promoting Interoperability performance categories where we determine, based on documentation submitted to us through a reweighting request 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 their data to a third party intermediary, evidenced by a written agreement between the MIPS eligible clinician and the 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

While qualifying that statement by adding that: These associations were less precise when we restricted to those with no lifetime tobacco cigarette use, with a non-significant elevated odds of disease among those with no lifetime tobacco cigarette use
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Because bupropion influences dopamine and norepinephrine pathways, it attenuates the reward mechanisms linked to nicotine dependence