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The time spent on cessation counseling should not overlap with the time supporting the E&M code

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When patients indicate a willingness to set a quit date in the next month, clinicians should consider a proactive approach whereby they obtain the patients permission to contact the quit line directly on the patients behalf as opposed to their providing a passive referral (by simply offering the patient contact information for the quit line)

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We originally selected this measure for development because of its high impact in terms of patient population, clinician coverage, and Medicare spending, and the opportunity to build a chronic condition measure that would address a condition not captured by other episode-based measures in the MIPS cost performance category

Step 8: Calculate the service level allocators for the indirect PEs based on the percentages calculated in Step 7