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EDITOR’S NOTE: This article originally appeared in the Dark Report, Vol. XVI, No. 13, September 21, 2009 (Pages 14-17).
Medicare Pays Doctors To Switch to E-Prescribing
Medicare incentive adds 2% for e-prescribing in 2009 and 2010, then changes to 1% for 2011
CEO SUMMARY: It’s a major step on the road to integration of healthcare informatics. During the next few years, the Medicare program is offering financial incentives to encourage office-based physicians to adopt e-prescribing. This is a positive development for local laboratories and hospital lab outreach programs. Early-adopter labs are already taking steps to enable e-prescribing as part of the electronic lab test order/results reporting systems they offer to client physicians.