Electronic Prescription

Overview
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) today announced Changes to the Medicare Electronic Prescribing (eRx) Incentive Program for Calendar Year 2011.
Background
Section 132 of the Medicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act of 2008 (MIPPA) required the Secretary to establish a new reporting program for eligible professionals who are successful electronic prescribers as [...]

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Posted September 2, 2011 by admin under E-Prescription, Electronic Prescription, Medicare Incentive

Health care providers participating in both eRx and EHR incentive programs can now breathe easy. Under a new rule, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has proposed modification of its electronic prescription (eRx) incentive program thereby better aligning it with its EHR incentive plan.
Providers participating in the EHR incentive program had been concerned [...]

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Posted June 6, 2011 by admin under E-Prescription, Electronic Prescription, Medicare Incentive

Federal health officials should more closely align the electronic prescription and meaningful use incentive payment programs, according to a letter from the Medical Group Management Association, Health Data Management reports.
According to MGMA, eligible professionals could be unfairly penalized by the programs’ inconsistent requirements (Goedert, Health Data Management, 3/17).

Details of Incentive Programs
Under 2009 economic stimulus package, [...]

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Posted April 22, 2011 by admin under E-Prescription, Electronic Prescription, Medicare Incentive

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: January 5, 2011
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January 5, 2011 – Integrated Systems Management Inc announced today that OmniMD™ EHR, Version 11.0 is 2011/2012 compliant and was certified as a Complete EHR on January 4, 2011 by the Certification Commission for Health Information Technology (CCHIT®), an ONC-ATCB, in accordance with the applicable (eligible provider) certification [...]

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Posted January 6, 2011 by admin under EHR, EMR, Hospital, Medicare Incentive

In an interim final rule released Tuesday, CMS “recognized” the use of version 10.6 of the National Council for Prescription Drug Programs SCRIPT Standard for electronic prescribing under the Medicare Part D drug benefit, Health Data Management reports.
According to CMS, “recognition” means the agency approves the use of the updated standard for e-prescribing; however, it [...]

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Posted July 13, 2010 by admin under E-Prescription, Electronic Prescription, Medicare Incentive, Medicare Law

By Heather B. Hayes
The state of Delaware credits a decision a year ago to fund e-prescribing start-up costs for the top Medicaid providers in the state for a 150 percent jump in the number of Medicaid providers now using the e-health service.
The top-down approach, which included offering e-prescribing technology and training services to the top [...]

Tags: E-Prescribing, Medicaid
Posted December 24, 2009 by admin under E-Prescription, Medicare Incentive, Medicare Law

By Neil Versel,

The new Medicare Part B fee schedule for 2010 is encouraging doctors to adopt EHRs by, for the first time, allowing practices to use real clinical data from EHRs and e-prescribing systems to report quality measures for the Physician Quality Reporting Initiative (PQRI) and e-prescribing incentive programs. The change, according to CMS, [...]

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Posted November 20, 2009 by admin under Electronic Prescription, Hospital, Medicare Incentive

By: Allison Tsai
Medicare is proposing a rule that would simplify reporting requirements for the Electronic Prescribing Incentive Program and the Physician Quality Reporting Initiative and set the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule for calendar year 2010.

The proposal would also add more measures for physicians to report under the PQRI pay-for-performance program, allow data submission from [...]

Tags: E-Prescription, electronic health-record system, Electronic Prescribing, Electronic Prescribing Incentive Program, Medicare proposal
Posted August 3, 2009 by admin under Electronic Prescription, Medicare Incentive

Now all physicians can access guidance on everything from selecting a system to calculating incentive earnings.

By Pamela Lewis Dolan, AMNews staff.
The American Medical Association has unveiled its enhanced online e-prescribing learning center and opened it up to all physicians.

The learning center, first launched April 1, offers a one-stop shop for physicians seeking information [...]

Tags: E-Prescribe, E-Prescribing, e-prescribing incentives, Electronic Prescribing, Physicians
Posted July 20, 2009 by admin under Electronic Prescription, Medicare Incentive

By Lorraine Savage
Everyone, it seems, wants doctors to e-prescribe. Physicians are facing an onslaught of government incentives, state and local urgings, and healthcare and consumer organizations’ guilt to make the transition from antiquated paper prescription pads to 21st century electronic prescription systems.
Medicare Incentive Program
The biggest step toward universal e-prescribing was the passage on [...]

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Posted June 22, 2009 by admin under Electronic Prescription, Medicare Incentive