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The specialty impacts table, therefore, includes any changes in spending that result from finalized policies that are subject to the statutory budget neutrality requirement at section 1848(c)(2)(B)(ii)(II) (such as the updated proposals associated with the transfer of postoperative care for global surgical procedures in CY 2025 or the clinical labor pricing update phase-in that began in CY 2022) but does not include any changes in spending which result from finalized policies that are not subject to the statutory budget neutrality adjustment, and therefore, have a neutral impact across all specialties
Second, it is difficult to predict whether Partial QPs, who can elect to report to MIPS, will choose to participate in the CY 2025 performance period/2027 MIPS payment year compared to the CY 2022 performance period/2024 MIPS payment year
