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CMS updates PQRI Web site
Quality Improvement Monitor, October 17, 2008
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has added an E-prescribing Incentive Program section page on the Physician Quality Reporting Initiative page of the CMS Web site. The new section page will provide information about the new e-prescribing incentive program that was authorized by the Medicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act of 2008 (MIPPA).
The page includes a fact sheet that describes the MIPPA provisions for the e-prescribing incentive program. Additional information on the program and how to quality for the e-prescribing incentive for the 2009 reporting year will be posted in early November.
Visit here to see the new page.
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