The new codes were surveyed for the January 2025 RUC meeting and the RUC determined that the code family requires no physician work and are practice expense (PE) only services
However, the compounded tirzepatide + B12 version offers the convenience of a single injection and ensures direct absorption into the bloodstream, which provides 100% bioavailability and avoids any potential issues with B12 absorption through the gut
Imagine how much longer that would be if you still had to ingest, break down, and absorb the B12 before the 12-48 hour period started
Miss one of those variables on a vaccine claim, and the denial follows a pattern that repeats until someone fixes the workflow
Because all the fat that your body is breaking down whether its the belly flab you have been waiting to no longer hang over your jeans, or the fat on your thighs that make pulling up the pant legs from high school a non-possibility, has to go through the liver FIRST before then fully exiting your body in some way

In the event that CMS decides to suppress a measure, we will notify MIPS eligible clinicians, eligible hospitals, and CAHs of the measure's suppression via existing communication channels, including the dissemination of a listserv announcement (MIPS Promoting Interoperability performance category and Medicare Promoting Interoperability Program) and posting on a CMS website (MIPS Promoting Interoperability performance category) identifying suppressed measures for an applicable CY performance period/MIPS payment year and EHR reporting period in an applicable CY, no later than the beginning of the applicable data submission period when technically feasible, which starts in January of the CY following the applicable performance period/EHR reporting period