I had the opportunity last week to speak about meaningful use and pay for reporting at the FMC Medical Directors meeting in Dallas. I thought this week I would provide a quick update related to a … [Read more...]
Avoiding the 2012 eRx Penalty: Christmas in September?
Last month I reviewed a proposal by CMS to limit the impact of the 2012 eRx “adjustment.” On August 31, CMS published the final rule entitled “Changes to the Electronic Prescribing (eRx) Incentive … [Read more...]
Proposed Changes to the e-Rx Incentive Program: Is CMS Softening the Blow?
For the past couple of weeks we have been talking about the contents of the proposed rule for the 2012 Medicare PFS. While not written in stone, the proposed rule does provide insight into the … [Read more...]
The e-Prescribing Penalty: A Snake in the Grass?
At the annual RPA meeting last week in Washington, D.C., I entertained several questions related to the CMS e-prescribing penalty. I have described this penalty in other venues and in this blog. … [Read more...]
Medicare or Medicaid? Which Pill Should I Swallow?
Sci-Fi fans will recall the scene from the Wachowski brothers’ 1999 classic “The Matrix” where Morpheus is offering civilization’s great hope, Neo, a choice—take the red pill or the blue pill. Neo, … [Read more...]
11 to Watch in 2011
February represents the 6th month of our venture into the realm of social media. As I mentioned in the original post on this blog, our intent has been to foster an objective view of the intersection … [Read more...]
E-prescribing & CPOE: 2 Birds, 1 Stone
Over the past few months we have explored a number of the meaningful use objectives within the CMS EHR incentive program. Here, I’d like to review two closely related stage 1 core objectives: … [Read more...]
CMS e-Prescribing Program: The Hammer Falls
The final rule for the 2011 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule was published two weeks ago. At just over 2,000 pages, the PFS contains a few nasty surprises related to e-prescribing. Participating in the … [Read more...]
