Blaha and his colleagues used the data to analyze the impact of smoking duration, as well as cessation, on risks for heart attack, stroke, heart disease, heart failure and atrial fibrillation
This study has received financial support from The Danish Victims Fund (Grant number: 20-610-00094)
(3) The implementation costs or negative unintended consequences associated with a cost measure outweigh the benefit of its continued use in the MIPS cost performance category
To accommodate for this limited measure choice and the rising performance threshold, we are proposing to remove the 7-point topped out measure score cap for clinicians reporting measures included in certain specialty measures and implement a benchmarking strategy for affected measures that would ensure clinicians with limited measure choice are not unfairly penalized
(b) MIPS Eligibility Estimates Eligibility among many clinicians is contingent on submission to MIPS as a group or election to opt-in: therefore, we would not know the number of MIPS eligible clinicians who submit until the submission period for the CY 2023 performance period is closed