Medicare Penalties Loom for E-Prescribing Holdouts; CMS Proposes a Fix

In light of looming penalties for Medicare health care professionals who are not e-prescribing and have not been granted an exemption, the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has proposed revisions to the e-prescribing (eRx) incentive program. After reviewing Medicare Part B claims data, CMS has identified 209,000 eligible professionals who submitted claims for patients visits for at least one of the 55 conditions included in the eRx program during 2010. However, only half of those eligible prescribers used certified eRx technology to transmit prescriptions related to the patient(s) with one of the eRx . . .