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For each Part B rebatable drug, CMS will identify the applicable payment amount benchmark quarter using the earliest first marketed date of any NDC ever marketed under any FDA application under which any NDCs that have ever been assigned to the billing and payment code as of the applicable calendar quarter have been marketed, as set forth in paragraphs (c)(1) through (3) of this section, as applicable, subject to paragraphs (c)(4) and (5) of this section: (1) For a Part B rebatable drug first approved or licensed by the FDA on or before December 1, 2020, and with a first marketed date on or before December 1, 2020, the payment amount benchmark quarter is the calendar quarter beginning July 1, 2021
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[174] Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a progressively debilitating disease and is marked by the presence of kidney damage or reduction in the kidneys' filtration rate
We also codified this methodology in our regulation at 414.1405(g), providing that, for each of the 2024, 2025, and 2026 MIPS payment years, the performance threshold would be the mean of the final scores for all MIPS eligible clinicians from a prior period as specified
