DecisionHealth, DecisionHealth - 2010 Issue 4 (April)

7 e-prescribing scenarios that impact whether you get incentive bonus

Faxing your patient's prescription to the local pharmacy from a computer won't count toward meeting criteria to earn a bonus under CMS's electronic prescribing initiative. But when you properly transmit an electronic prescription that is converted into a fax prior to being filled, it does count toward earning the bonus, CMS officials say. This scenario is a legitimate e-prescribing transaction by CMS's standards.

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