After considering the comments on our CY 2022 proposals, we agreed with commenters that the use of a multi-year transition would help smooth out the changes in payment resulting from the clinical labor pricing update, avoiding potentially disruptive changes in payment for affected interested parties, and promoting payment stability from year-to-year
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For ACOs under prospective assignment, assignment is updated quarterly to exclude any prospectively assigned beneficiaries that meet the exclusion criteria under 425.401(b) ( 425.401(b))
The declines in smokeless tobacco initiation among adolescents and young adults is particularly relevant to improving the health of the nation because smokeless tobacco use is often linked to subsequent cigarette initiation
When we know theres a community, for example, that has a big rodeo, and we know theres going to be exposure to spit marketing, DeLeeuw said, the state will work with the local health department to come up with tobacco-education billboards and advertisements