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By excluding women and younger survey participants, our analytic sample was restricted to a population with long and stable exposure to ST and cigarettes, and all subjects were at risk during follow-up for relevant disease outcomes
(2) model 1 plus race/ethnicity, educational attainment, marital status, family income, region, and survey years
As described in section II.G of this proposed rule, over the past several years, we have worked to develop payment mechanisms under the PFS to improve the accuracy of valuation and payment for the services furnished by physicians and other healthcare professionals, especially in the context of evolving changes in medical practice using evidence-based models of care, such as the Million Hearts model
We anticipate potential changes to primary care coding and payment policies, such as use of coding that recognizes groups of services furnished over a fixed time period, that would offer a new opportunity within the PFS for primary care clinicians to move to payment structures that are not fully dependent on billing for each discrete component of overall care and act as a step toward accountability for the cost and quality of patient care
