The products for all specialties for the CPT/HCPCS code were then added together, yielding a specialty-weighted service specific risk index reflecting the weighted MP costs across all specialties furnishing that procedure
(1) Data Provided to ASM Participants (a) Legal Authority To Share Beneficiary-Identifiable Data and Applicability to ASM Data Sharing Processes As discussed in the CY 2026 PFS proposed rule (90 FR 32619), we believe that an ASM participant may need access to certain Medicare beneficiary-identifiable data for the purposes of evaluating its performance, conducting quality assessment and improvement activities, conducting population-based activities relating to improving health or reducing health care costs, or conducting other health care operations listed in the first or second paragraph of the definition of health care operations under the HIPAA Privacy Rule, 45 CFR 164.501
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Taken together, we estimate that the change in submissions due to finalized policy provisions and newly available data will result in a change of +1,825 submissions (+2,312 submissions due to policy provisions + 487 submissions due to updated data), an annual burden change of +10,322 hours (+14,402.62 hr due to policy provisions + 4,081.08 hr due to updated data, rounded to the hour) at a cost of +$1,274,560 (+$1,763,874.66 due to policy provisions + $489,314.70 due to updated data, rounded to the dollar)
