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.