New G-code introduced for e-prescribing in 2010

by: CHARLES FIEGL Dec 1, 2009

You must use a new G-code to report you've electronically prescribed drugs for a Medicare patient in 2010. You'll forfeit incentive bonuses -- amounting to roughly $1,500 per provider -- if you continue to report old codes for e-prescribing.

You report G8553 (At least one prescription created during the encounter was generated and transmitted electronically using a qualified eRx system) on claims during eligible patient encounters in 2010.

Remember: CMS altered the e-prescribing initiative in the 2010 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule.

We'll have more information on e-prescribing in a future Part B News issue and on www.partbnews.com.

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CHARLES FIEGL

Dec 9, 2009 5:26 PM

Hi Roberta,

Go to CMS'S E-Rx initiative page here and click on the file labeled "2010 eRx Measure Specifications and Release Notes." There you'll open a .zip file containing the two PDFs that detail this change.

Roberta Buell

Dec 9, 2009 12:24 PM

Where are you getting that information??? See page 530 of the Display Copy of the Final Rule, which says that CMS is going to use G8443 with a modified descriptor...G8443 is still valid....which is it???

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