Because an oral or dental infection can present substantial risk to the success of dialysis treatment for ESRD, we believe dental services furnished to identify, diagnose, and treat oral or dental infections prior to or contemporaneously with dialysis services in the treatment of ESRD are not in connection with the care, treatment, filling, removal, or replacement of teeth or structures directly supporting teeth, but instead are inextricably linked to, and substantially related and integral to the clinical success of, these other covered medical services
There is greater recognition that people in this population want to quit using tobacco, according to a study in the journal Addiction, and that mental health and substance use professionals are well-positioned to support tobacco recovery
ACOs have been found to perform better on certain patient-experience and performance measures than physician groups participating in the MIPS
Further, we seek feedback on possible mechanisms to establish a balance whereby our methodology would account for inflation and deflation in supply and equipment costs
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