This proposal would add language at 414.1380(b)(2)(v)(B) to specify that, beginning with the 2027 MIPS payment year, if data used to calculate a score for a cost measure are impacted by significant changes or errors affecting the performance period, such that calculating the cost measure score would lead to misleading or inaccurate results, then the affected cost measure would be excluded from the MIPS eligible clinician's or group's cost performance category score
Maher Karam-Hage, M.D., is medical director of the Tobacco Research and Treatment Program at MD Anderson
The entire digestive system can be subject to high cancer risk when chewing tobacco is involved, and the longer the person uses chewing tobacco the greater their risk for one or more of these cancers is
We tended to do them when we were dating, kissing at the end of each date, and often at the beginning too
Council President Andrea Jenkins said the price of cigarettes was one reason why she quit smoking eight years ago, and that she hopes the new minimum will encourage more people to stop or never start