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Over the past several years and again more recently, we have heard from interested parties that the direct supervision requirements in the private practice setting are problematic for OTPPs and PTPPs who must remain on-site and immediately available when Medicare patients are treated in order to bill for therapy services furnished by their supervised OTAs and PTAs

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We are adding a new paragraph (b)(3) to 425.512 to establish for performance year 2025 and subsequent performance years that for an ACO that reports all of the eCQMs/Medicare CQMs in the APP Plus quality measure set, meeting the data completeness requirement for all of the eCQMs/Medicare CQMs, and administers the CAHPS for MIPS survey (except as specified in 414.1380(b)(1)(vii)(B)), CMS calculates the ACO's health equity adjusted quality performance score as the sum of the ACO's MIPS Quality performance category score for all measures in the APP Plus quality measure set and the ACO's health equity adjustment bonus points