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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

A similar pattern was found for the smoking trajectory and cancer mortality by age group (Supplementary file Table 2)
Cigarette sales have decreased in the past decade, but some tobacco consumers have switched to smokeless products
Damage to the DNA in cells lining the lungs creates genetic errors, and some of these are driver mutations, which are changes that give the cell a growth advantage