I read the incentive info to read that not only do you need a minimum of 25 visits associated with at least one eRx during the visit but that at least 10% of you total visits during the year also have to have the G code submitted. So I am going to start today but I may not make it because I see alot of Medicare. That is if we really qualify at all based on my previous post.
I don't think that this is really true.
What the 2010 eRx Incentive program requires is that "at least 10% of a successful electronic prescriber's Medicare Part B covered services must be made up of codes that appear in the denominator of the eRx measure." What I take this to mean is that you must use the CPT codes listed in the
"Getting Started" guide for at least 10% of the visits on which the G8553 code is used. See List 2 in the guide for some of the codes: includes are the common office visit codes such as 99213 & 99214. It would be a rare office-based MD who doesn't have at least 10% of his Medicare billing with these codes.
I imagine that intention was to link the eRx to an actual office encounter with the physician, rather than a walk-in visit for a lab check or a flu shot.
The Guide actually has a "useful" (for a CMS document) section at the bottom: "Step by Step Getting Started".
