Damned if you do, damned if you don’t. That’s the predicament many providers find themselves in with the two current CMS e-prescription initiatives.
Medicare legislation passed in the Medicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act of 2008 authorized the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to offer incentives for meeting e-prescribing requirements, but providers who meet the standards for those rewards may still be penalized if they do not meet the threshold of sending at least 10 ePrescriptions between January 1 and June 30 of 2011.
