INCENTIVES:

ARE YOU READY TO RECEIVE A 2% INCREASE IN YOUR MEDICARE REIMBURSEMENTS?

Beginning in 2009, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) will begin awarding incentive payments to providers who successfully adopt and continually use e-prescribing software. To start, users of qualifying software will receive 2% incentive payments. Providers that fail to adopt e-prescribng will eventually be penalized.

Medicare Part-D payment incentives and penalties chart
YEAR
INCENTIVE
PENALTY
2009
2%
--
2010
2%
--
2011
1%
--
2012
1%
1%
2013
0.5%
1.5%
2014
0%
2%

Currently ScriptSure meets and exceeds the CMS draft requirements for e-prescribing. The final CMS guidelines for qualifying software will be released in mid-November 2008.

Generate list of current medications including medication data received from PBM's
Ability to select from accurate drug medication lists, print prescriptions and electronically transmit prescrptions to pharmacies
Automated drug checks including automated prompts that offer information on the drug being prescribed, inappropriate dosing, drug-drug interactions, allergy checks and more
Providing information on formulary medications, patient eligibility and authorization requirements received from the patient's PBM.
Providing therapeutically appropriate class alternative medications and the availability of lower cost medications.

BENEFITS:

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.

ScriptSure by Daw Systems, Inc.
Contact Daw Systems, Inc. Toll-Free: (866) 755-1500
Email: info@dawsystems.com

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