Here is my take. They can all GTH! I have no intention of paying for a service which would replace (poorly)a process I can now do for free and much more securely than ERX. My plan is to have all my Medicare patients who need refills to have their pharmacy call us. Then, when they call, they will be put on hold for, oh I don't know, 20 minutes, or told we are too busy right now to take their call and they will have to call back later. For new scripts, I will tell patients my staff will call it to their pharmacy when they have a free minute, which may not be until tomorrow or the next day(of course I will explain to the patients how easy this used to be for both us and them and the pharmacies when we could fax scripts directly from the room). I suspect that, after a few weeks of this the pharmacies will have had enough as will the patients who may now get off their buns and complain to their Congressnimrods that this new rule sucks and should be repealed. If any of you do otherwise, shame on you. We cannot hope to whip this beast if we continue to roll over and play dead.
In a similar vein, I continue to be a hard-long-eared equine to mail order pharmacies in other states which cannot accept stamped signatures (this also applies to any agency servicing Medicare which cannot accept stamped signatures). I refuse to manually sign and then fax them back as this is no longer an original signature. If they require an original, they have to mail me the form/script along with a SASE. Yea, me bad.
Leslie
