Comprehensive tobacco control programs coordinate efforts to implement proven strategies to prevent tobacco use initiation among youth and young adults, to promote tobacco users to quit, to eliminate secondhand smoke exposure, and to identify and eliminate tobacco-related disparities
We finalized in the CY 2022 PFS final rule that for the CY 2023 and 2024 MIPS performance periods/2025 and 2026 MIPS payment years, a subgroup reporting measures and activities in an MVP will submit its affiliated group's data for the Promoting Interoperability performance category and in the scenario that a subgroup does not submit its affiliated group's data, the subgroup will receive a zero score for the Promoting Interoperability performance category (86 FR 65413 and 65414)
Resources We Trust Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Smoking and Cancer Mayo Clinic: Mayo Clinic Minute: No Lesser Evil When It Comes to Tobacco Use Cleveland Clinic: Tobacco Cessation American Cancer Society: Health Benefits of Quitting Smoking Over Time Yale Medicine: 3 Things to Know About Lung Cancer Screening Conor Steuer, MD Medical Reviewer Conor E
Simplified self-nomination process of returning QCDRs (88 FR 79426 and 79427) (OMB 0938-1314)
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Further, in 428.20 of this proposed rule, CMS proposes to codify definitions established in the revised Medicare Part D Drug Inflation Rebate Guidance and new definitions based on policies detailed in this proposed rule for the following terms: Applicable threshold
