INCENTIVES:
Currently ScriptSure meets and exceeds the CMS draft
requirements for e-prescribing.
ARE
YOU READY TO RECEIVE A 2% INCREASE IN YOUR MEDICARE
REIMBURSEMENTS?
Since 2009, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
(CMS) begain awarding incentive payments to
providers who successfully adopted and continually
use e-prescribing
software. Users of qualifying
software receive 2% additional on reimbursements as an incentive payment. Providers
that fail to adopt e-prescribng will eventually
be penalized.
| Medicare
Part-D payment incentives and penalties chart |
| YEAR |
INCENTIVE |
PENALTY |
2010 |
2% |
-- |
2011 |
1% |
-- |
2012 |
1% |
1% |
2013 |
0.5% |
1.5% |
2014 |
0% |
2% |
E-prescribing
can benefit both you and your patients:
1) Improving patient safety and quality of care.
- Illegibility
from hand-written prescriptions is eliminated,
decreasing the risk of
medication errors and decreasing liability risks.
- Warning
and alert systems are provided at the point
of prescribing. ScriptSure helps enhance the
overall medication management process with clinical
decision support allowing for medications checks
for as many as 15 different circumstances including
drug-drug interactions and drug-allergy interactions,
- Access
to patient’s medical and medication history.
with specific medical problems.
2)
Time Savings for you and your staff. Create prescriptions
in seconds. Review well-organized patient chart information
immediately.
3) Reducing time spent on phone calls and call-backs
to pharmacies.
4) Reducing time spent faxing prescriptions to pharmacies.
Both prescribers and
pharmacies can save time and resources spent on faxing
prescriptions, reducing labor,
handling, unreliability, and paper expense with e-prescriptions.
5) Automating the prescription renewal request and
authorization process.
6) Improving formulary compliance by having easily
accessed formulary information.
7) Improving drug surveillance/recall ability.
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