Second, we propose to further divide the Clinical Staff Compensation costs for these occupations into wages and salaries, employee benefits, and contract labor costs based on the ratio of clinical staff wages and salaries, clinical staff employee benefits, and clinical staff contract labor costs to the sum of these three groups of costs
Hazard ratios for selected cancers among men age 4079 years according to tobacco status
The commenters were concerned that practitioners might avoid the policy by not providing a preventive service on the same day as another O/O E/M service
Further, we believe that payment for oral sleep apnea appliances would not fall within the payment policy for dental services inextricably linked to covered medical services, as the appliances are not services for dental care, but are instead services and supplies for the purposes of directly treating a medical condition unrelated to teeth or structures directly supporting the teeth (for example, sleep apnea)
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Additionally, reconciliation of payment amounts is consistent with the approach to the calculation of the payment amounts in other CMS programs (such as the Coverage Gap Discount Program) that provide for a reconciliation period
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