tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2004 Issue 42

Physicians: Stark Law Loophole Could Jumpstart E-Prescribing

If electronic prescribing seems far too difficult a path for most practices to travel, new proposals in the works at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services could help clear some key roadblocks.In his Oct. 19 keynote address at America's Health Insurance Plans' annual Medicare conference, CMS Administrator Mark McClellan stressed tight timelines for reform bill goals for Medicare managed care health plans. Although the Medicare Modernization Act doesn't require implementation of e-prescribing standards until 2008, federal agencies are working now on proposed standards and will announce them "soon," said McClellan, who added that he wants Medicare...

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