The awareness sessions should be inclusive of all workers and managers, tobacco users and non-users
We believe this is appropriate because it enables us to obtain a more conservative prediction of the ACO's financial performance for a given performance year within the current agreement period than we would be able to obtain if we were to exclude the BY corresponding to the performance year that was not financially reconciled from the calculation of the prepaid shared savings multiplier
Payment modifiers: Payment modifiers are accounted for in creating the file consistent with the current payment policy as implemented in claims processing
In Canada, the rates are much smaller, with only a small percentage of adults being regular users
In performance year 2022, ACOs had a higher average performance on quality measures they are required to report in order to share in savings compared to other similarly sized clinician groups not in the Shared Savings Program
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