I feel your pain Bruce, being from Ohio. I was "cheating" by "printing" my scripts to paperport so I could electronically stamp my sig on the controlled scripts and then fax them directly thru paperport's fax, but the pharms didn't like that either. Now if I print the script and sign it by hand, then fax it, they are ok with that - where is the logic in that lol!! (or I can print it and my MA can call it in to them and they will take it- ya, that's real "secure"!!). The Ohio pharm board should just post all their regs in an easily available public location to make it easier for my drug seeking patients to get their scripts - they wouldn't even need to come up with a good story to give me to get a new script, they could just call in their own!
Ok, I better stop, my BP's jumping again. ANYWAY, what I was wondering is on this "2% bonus for eprescribing thing", is this for ALL scripts including controlled substances, since the controlled substances CAN'T be eprescribed(with some state to state variability I know)? Someone who does a lot of pain management or psychiatric care in their practice may be hard pressed to hit the 50% requirement even if they DO eprescribe is why I was asking, given the amount of controlled scripts that are typically involved in treating these patients. Plus, what is the 50% that they are looking at? Is it 50% of total scripts generated, so a 90 day mail in prescription for Actos counts the same as a two week supply of Vicodin, both being "one script"?
