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     The road to becoming a physician is a long and arduous process; but when it is over, physicians look forward to finally establishing or becoming a part of a medical business and taking care of their patients.

     What they don't expect is the burden of a healthcare environment where coding, compliance, regulation, and payer issues seems to occupy an ever increasing amount of their time. The ability to determine if the business is financially successful seems to be an elusive prospect.

     It doesn't have to be that way. With the right planning, resources, and education for both physician and administrative personnel, a medical business can be financially successful and efficient…..BUT most of all, the business can allow the physician to be a physician first….the way it should be.

     Physicians First, Inc. has been providing the professional services necessary to the success of medical businesses for over fifteen years both in Florida and nationally. The results are more than documented in the references from those who have chosen the company to provide immediate as well as long term solutions to the management of their organization.

     Lasting relationships are created with clients through a commitment to quality service.

 

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July 18, 2010

Article: 2012 Penalties for not E-Prescribing in Medicare Would be Based On Analyzing Provider Data for the Period 1/1/2011 through 6/30/2011
   If you have not implemented E-Prescribing in your practice, you should not put it off any longer.
   As of 1/1/2012 Medicare allowed amounts for individual providers will decrease by 1% if providers are not "successfully" e-prescribing for Medicare patients. Where this may seem like a long way off, CMS recently proposed the determination of whether the penalty will be imposed would be based on analyzing provider data for the period 1/1/2011 through 6/30/2011.
   For claims based submission of the E-Prescribe measure, CMS would look at services billed by the provider. If there were 100 services billed where the E-Prescribe measure applied, 10 of those claims must have the code for E-Prescribing reported or the penalty would be imposed. For registry based or EHR reporting of E-Prescribe, these qualified registries or EHR vendors would need to download data to CMS during the period 7/1/2011 through 8/19/2011. The same 100 encounter rule with the minimum 10 reporting would be applied in these situations to avoid the penalty in 2012.
   Exemptions to the penalty would apply if:
    The provider is of a type who does not have prescribing privileges, or
    Data analysis indicates there were less than 100 applicable cases where E-Prescribe should have been reported, or
    Less than 10% of the providers Medicare allowed amounts are applicable for E-Prescribing reporting.
   Keep in mind also that penalties for not successfully e-prescribing increase as of 2013 to 1.5% and 2% as of 2014 and beyond.
   To review the E-Prescribing reporting measure specification click here
   To review all information related to the CMS E-Prescribe program click here