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Want to Show Your Exemption From the E-Prescribing Penalty? Use New G Codes, CMS Says

Published on Thu Mar 10, 2011

Three new codes show your MAC why you collect your full pay next year.Never fear -- if you don't have prescribing privileges, CMS will not cut your pay as a penalty for failing to comply with the new e-prescribing incentive program.As you are probably aware, starting in 2012, you may be subject to a one percent payment adjustment on your Part B pay if you don't successfully participate in E-prescribing this year. In 2013, that payment adjustment will go up to 1.5 percent, and in 2014 it will rise to two percent, CMS's Daniel Green, MD noted on a Feb. 15 CMS-sponsored call. "To earn an incentive in 2011, an eligible professional must E-prescribe 25 times during the year, ten of which must be in the first six months," Green said. "If they are a successful E-prescriber during the calendar year, they not only would avoid the 2012 payment adjustment, they [...]
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