of this proposed rule, for agreement periods beginning on January 1, 2024, and in subsequent years, in computing an ACO's historical benchmark, CMS determines the per capita Parts A and B fee-for-service expenditures for beneficiaries that would have been assigned to the ACO in any of the 3 most recent years prior to the start of the agreement period using the ACO participant TINs identified before the start of the agreement period as required under 425.118(a) and the beneficiary assignment methodology selected by the ACO for the first performance year of the agreement period as required under 425.400(a)(4)(ii)
As described earlier in this proposed rule, CMS has observed that a number of NDC-9s of Part D rebatable drugs approved or licensed on or before October 1, 2021, do not have AMP reported in the period beginning January 1, 2021, and ending September 30, 2021, and a number of NDC-9s of subsequently approved drugs do not have AMP reported in the first calendar year following the drug's first marketed date
of this proposed rule), we have determined that adjusting certain Shared Savings Program calculations to remove payment amounts for selected codes, in the event we determine SAHS billing activity occurs in CY 2024 or subsequent calendar years, from the calculation of performance year expenditures, updates to the historical benchmark, and ACO participants' Medicare FFS revenue used for multiple purposes across the Shared Savings Program, meets the requirements for use of our authority under section 1899(i)(3) of the Act when incorporated into the existing other payment model we have established pursuant to that section
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