We are concerned that such SAHS billing activity, should it occur in CY 2024 or later, would inflate Medicare Parts A and B payment amounts and affect Shared Savings Program calculations, including: Performance year reconciliation calculations, including expenditures for each ACO's assigned beneficiaries for the calendar year that has SAHS billing activity, the national-regional blended update factor used to update the benchmark for ACOs beginning an agreement period before January 1, 2024 (refer to 425.601(b)), the three-way blended update factor used to update the benchmark for ACOs beginning an agreement period on January 1, 2024 and in subsequent years (refer to 425.652(b)), and factors based on ACO participant revenue to determine the loss recoupment limits for ACOs participating under two-sided models of the BASIC track (Levels C, D, E) (refer to 425.605(d))

We thank submitters for the information they provided through the public submissions process and may consider revisions to the clinical examples codified in our regulations at 411.15(i)(3)(i) based upon additional data and information received in response to this proposed rule
Additionally, based on our calculation of cost performance category scores for the CY 2022 performance period/2024 MIPS payment year, we observed lower scores for the cost performance category than for the quality performance category, even though they each generally constitute 30 percent of the final score
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