RE: E-prescribing issues
House, Melanie K.
Mark,
At the moment, all we are sure of is that the prescription refills requested by our office are changed to “Print” rather than E-prescribed. (If they are actually printing, I don’t know, but they are not printing here and I have received no calls that they have printed elsewhere. Sue said she would check to see if this is also affecting E-prescribed prescriptions written in clinic. If you can think of someone that you may have written an e-prescribed prescription for in clinic, we can check EPIC to see if it says “PRINT” or “E-prescribing” on the Rx.
Melanie House, RN
Division of Nephrology
(352) 273-8818
From: Segal, Mark S. MD
Sent: Friday, April 15, 2011 1:47 PM
To: House, Melanie K.
Subject: RE: E-prescribing incentive program
Is this the case even if we eprescribe in clinic?
Mark
From: House, Melanie K.
Sent: Friday, April 15, 2011 1:37 PM
To: Segal, Mark S. MD; Talor, Zvi MD; Weiner, I. David; Ejaz, A. Ahsan;
Kazory, Amir H.; Canales, Muna; Tantravahi, JogiRaju V.; Asmar, Abdo; Jagadesh,
Sunil; Faldu, Chirag; Dhatt, Gurjit S.; Pakkivenakata, Uma; maroz; Kambhampati,
Ganesh; Alsabbagh, Mourad; Mohandas, Rajesh; Amdur, Elizabeth; Abello,
Christina S.; Owens, Linda L.
Subject: FW: E-prescribing incentive program
Importance: High
Doctors/Elizabeth/Christina,
After several calls to the E-prescribing Help # in the past few days, it appears there is a glitch with regards to Nephrology’s e-prescribed prescriptions causing them to come back as PRINT rather than E-prescribed. So far, I have had six instances occur where one of our physicians has signed a request in EPIC for an e-prescribed Rx, only to later determine that the pharmacy did NOT receive the E-prescribed Rx.
Sue at the E-prescribing Help Desk is looking into this issue, but for now, E-prescribing does not appear to be working for our division.
Linda and I have discussed this issue and, until further notice, we will request that our physicians request refills as Phone-in rather than E-prescribed.
Melanie House, RN
Division of Nephrology
(352) 273-8818
From: Amdur, Elizabeth
Sent: Thursday, April 14, 2011 2:35 PM
To: Abello, Christina S.; House, Melanie K.; Owens, Linda L.
Subject: FW: E-prescribing incentive program
Importance: High
From: Palmer, Rachel M.
Sent: Thursday, April 14, 2011 2:33 PM
To: Division Chiefs; Divisional Administrators
Cc: Meek, Patricia; Crowley, Shannon; David Roque; Scavone Stone,
Michele; Theresa Hodgson
Subject: FW: E-prescribing incentive program
Importance: High
Please see below and attached and inform all of your providers about this program. If you have any questions, please contact me or your clinic manager.
Thank you,
Rachel
From: Marvin Dewar
[mailto:dew...@shands.ufl.edu]
Sent: Thursday, April 14, 2011 2:09 PM
To: Marvin Dewar
Subject: E-prescribing incentive program
The University of Florida Physicians has been successfully live with e-prescribing for nearly a week. Feedback thus far has been generally positive. Now that we have brought the module up, it is time to tackle the e-prescribing incentive program.
Beginning Monday, April 18, we are going to begin participating in the e-prescribing incentive program, which requires providers who care for Medicare patients to submit at least ten e-prescriptions in at least ten unique encounters before June 30 to avoid financial penalties, and at least 25 e-prescribing reports before the end of 2011 to quality for financial incentives. In order to participate, we will submit claims with the relevant e-prescribing G code attached.
A description of how we are going to participate in the program is in the attached word document. In addition, we have attached a sample encounter form that highlights the new G code that must be circled for Medicare encounters involving an e-prescription.
Managers: please share this information with your staff and make sure they understand what they need to do to make our participation in this program successful.
Administrators: please share this information with your providers and make sure they understand e-prescribing and what they need to circle on the encounter form.
Thanks for your participation in this important effort.
Marvin
Marvin A Dewar, MD,
JD
Senior Associate Dean and CEO
University of Florida Physicians
