As a physician, if you haven’t been marketed yet, you might expect some marketing efforts forthcoming soon. In Florida the insurance companies are offering free e-prescribing and I might guess by going through a clearinghouse that this will go directly into the records of one’s medications with...
Posted to
The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck
on 09-22-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, Pharma/FDA News, Other Items of Interest, Physician, healthcare, e-prescribing, HMO, e-Prescriptions, Generic Drugs, Patient, Pay for Performance
This gets a little confusing as both the Medicare Physician pay cuts and e-Prescribing have been rolled together of late. What is staring physicians right in the face is the 10% Medicare pay cut on July 1st, that’s right, less than a month away. The patients will be the ultimate losers here...
Excellent post from Paul Levy, CEO of Beth Israel Deaconess in Boston relating to controlled substances and using e-prescribing...I think every physician who uses e-prescribing has the same legitimate complaint ...everything else is done via the computer and and for controlled substances, put down the...
Posted to
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on 05-21-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Other Items of Interest, Controlled substances, Prescriptions, e-prescribing, ER Room