In response to the proposal in the CY 2023 PFS proposed rule to increase the data completeness criteria threshold to at least 80 percent starting with the CY 2026 performance period/2028 MIPS payment year, interested parties indicated in the public comments that increasing the data completeness threshold from 75 to 80 percent within two years of increasing the threshold from 70 to 75 percent would present various challenges such as the following, which would make it more difficult to meet the data completeness criteria threshold: increased burden (in particular, disproportionately increase burden for smaller and rural practices due to limited resources and staff, and some practices that are continuing to recover from the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency)
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We propose to then divide this by the sum of total Medicare allowable costs across all remaining providers to obtain a cost weight for the proposed 2022-based FQHC market basket for the given category
We acknowledge the potential challenge associated with anticipating whether other practitioners will furnish portions of the global package and, accordingly, appending the appropriate modifier when billing global package services
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As a result, RHCs would be able to improve access to care by serving more patients in communities served by RHCs and FQHCs, including rural communities, and not requiring patients to travel longer distances to receive specialty services
