Women's Health Care--MA

Document ID: CMS-2011-0108-0013
Document Type: Public Submission
Agency: Centers For Medicare & Medicaid Services
Received Date: June 01 2011, at 12:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time
Date Posted: June 8 2011, at 12:00 AM Eastern Standard Time
Comment Start Date: June 1 2011, at 12:00 AM Eastern Standard Time
Comment Due Date: July 25 2011, at 11:59 PM Eastern Standard Time
Tracking Number: 80e3903e
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This is comment on Proposed Rule

Medicare Program: Proposed Changes to Electronic Prescribing Incentive Program

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I am a gynecologist in northeastern Massachusetts. I have been using electronic prescribing regularly for 5 years. I provide specialist services for numerous Medicare patients, for a variety of issues. Most of these patients are on a long list of medications prescribed by their internists. I rarely have occasion to prescribe medications for these patients. I have been told that if I do not generate 10 electronic prescriptions for Medicare patients by June 30 I will be subjected to a financial penalty. This is completely unfair. I assume the rule is an incentive to get doctors to use e-prescribing. Our practice is already using it routinely! It is completely unreasonable to penalize me because the services I provide to medicare patients often do not require prescriptions!