Ok guys, I want some feedback on this.
I am certain everyone is by now fully aware that if you submit certain procedure codes (indicating you ERx'd a patient's meds), they you can get up to a 2% increase in your overal Medicare reimbursement. This could add up to MAJOR dollars, and goes into effect Jan 1st.
Here's the irony, they said that a written or computer generated Rx which are printed and signed by the doctor are fine. They said that faxing a written or printed and signed Rx are fine. They said we can still call stuff in.
HOWEVER, they DENY us the right to do something AC is useful for: computer generated Rx that is faxed directly from the P.C., i.e. a PC-to-Fax.
Why are they singling out this one feature of many EMR's????
My theory is that the vendors of the ERx programs paid off the proper senators or congressmen or the proper CMMS administrators. No we have to subscribe to one of these.
AllScripts is free, but you have to manually input all the meds. Sure you can PAY MONEY to have them convert you current med lists to ERx format. But it ain't cheap.
This notion get me quite P.O.'d.
