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Proposed Legislation for 2011
[By Staff Writers]
In one of their final acts for 2007, the American Medical News just reported that US House of Representatives and Senate lawmakers introduced new legislation mandating e-prescribing for Medicare participating providers, beginning in 2011. The bill, if enacted, would fine physicians who continued writing paper prescriptions after January 1, 2011.
Paradoxically, it would also allow the Department of Health and Human Services [HHS] to grant one or two year financial hardship exemptions for not using the appropriate technology. Of course, the definition of “hardship” would be left up to HHS discretion.
The proposal also provides one-time Medicare grants to offset the costs of technology: $2,000 in the first two years of implementation, $1,500 in the next two years, and $1,000 permanently thereafter.
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Finally, doctors would also receive a one percent bonus on Medicare Evaluation and Management {E&M] services provided in conjunction with an e-prescription. Compensation for E&M services provided during a visit using a paper prescription would be cut by 10 percent if the prescription could have been handled electronically.
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Over Half of Prescriptions Go Online for First Time in 2013
For the first time, the majority of U.S. prescriptions — not including those for controlled substances — were routed electronically to pharmacies through Surescripts in 2013, according to the company’s National Progress Report on health information technology (IT). That’s more than one billion prescriptions, or 58% of all non-controlled substance, eligible prescriptions written last year.
The total volume of prescriptions routed online increased 32% to 1.04 billion in 2013 from 788 million in 2012, according to Surescripts. By comparison, the growth rate in the number of e-prescribers was much lower. Seventy-three percent of office-based physicians prescribed electronically last year versus 69% in 2012. In previous years, adoption increased much more rapidly.
Source: Ken Terry, Medscape News [5/23/14]
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