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New PHR, E-Script Efforts for Medicare
August 11, 2008
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services will expand personal health records pilot programs for Medicare beneficiaries. CMS also will host an educational conference on a recently enacted Medicare e-prescribing incentive payment program and seeks co-sponsors of the event.
CMS will test PHRs, populated with up to two years of claims data, with beneficiaries that have traditional Medicare coverage in Arizona and Utah. The program will start in January.
The agency presently is gearing up a PHR demonstration program in South Carolina with beneficiaries that have Medicare Advantage or Medicare Part D drug benefit coverage.
Noridian Administrative Services, a Fargo, N.D.-based Medicare contractor, has published a solicitation seeking PHR vendors to participate in the Arizona and Utah pilot programs. The deadline is Sept. 8 and the application is available at NoridianMedicare.com/phr.
CMS will host the e-prescribing incentive payment program Oct. 6-7 in Boston. Under the Medicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act of 2008, enacted in July, Medicare will pay more to physicians that e-prescribe and less to those that don't.
The law calls for incentive payments for e-prescribing of 2% in 2009 and 2010, 1% in 2011 and 2012, and 0.5% in 2013. Beginning in 2012, Medicare payments to physicians not electronically prescribing would be reduced by 1%, then 1.5% in 2013 and 2% in subsequent years. The legislation also requires reporting of any e-prescribing quality measures established under Medicare's physician reporting system.
CMS is seeking organizations that meet specific criteria to co-sponsor the event and consult on conference content, speakers and outreach strategies. A notice is available at http://federalregister.gov/page2.aspx, and proposals to co-sponsor are due by August 15.
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