Under the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) ePrescribing rule, physicians must issue at least 10 electronic scripts (e-scripts) by June 30, 2011, to avoid an ePrescribing penalty that amounts to a 1% reduction from their total Medicare Part B allowable charges in 2012.
The AMA continually stressed to CMS that the agency's sudden decision in November 2010 to require physicians to meet these criteria by June 30 of this year in order to avoid 2012 penalties was unreasonable.
Read the full article from the AMA Health System Reform Insight HERE.
Posted on
Fri, June 17, 2011
by NBP,LLC
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