Abstract
In july 2008, congress passed HR 6331, also known as “Medicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act of 2008 (MIPPA)” (http://www.govtrack.us/congress/billtext.xpd?bill=h110-6331).1 Section 132, which introduced incentives for electronic prescribing (known as e-prescribe or eRx), is now becoming extremely relevant for hand surgeons. Compliance with this new program offered financial incentives from 2009 to 2010, but failure to comply is now costing practitioners future Medicare revenue. All eligible practitioners who failed to dispense 10 e-prescriptions during the first 6 months of 2011 will forfeit 1% of their 2012 Medicare reimbursement, and those who fail to reach 25 e-prescriptions by the end of 2011 will lose an additional 1.5% in 2013.
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