Such policies have strong support, with 72% of U.S
We are adding new paragraph (c)(3)(iv) to 425.512 to establish for performance year 2025 and subsequent performance years, if CMS determines the ACO meets the requirements of the Extreme and Uncontrollable Circumstances policy and the ACO reports the APP Plus quality measure set, meets the data completeness requirement, and receives a MIPS Quality performance category score, CMS will calculate the ACO's quality score as the higher of the ACO's health equity adjusted quality performance score or the equivalent of the 40th percentile MIPS Quality performance category score across all MIPS Quality performance category scores, excluding entities/providers eligible for facility-based scoring, for the relevant performance year

The definition of a Part D rebatable drug includes drugs approved under a new drug application under section 505(c) of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic (FD&C) Act (that is, brand name drugs), generic drugs approved under section 505(j) of the FD&C Act that meet certain statutory criteria (that is, sole source generic drugs), and biologicals licensed under section 351 of the Public Health Service Act (PHS), including biosimilars
Tobacco smoke carcinogens and lung cancer
3729(b)(1)(A) to our regulations for purposes of Medicare overpayments