Medicare is offering bonuses to doctors who adopt e-prescribing. However, the process is convoluted and practices that do everything right still don’t receive payment:
Richard McArdle, the CEO of an ophthalmology practice in Portland, Maine, who attended the CMS-sponsored conference, told MedPage Today that his group’s experience with PQRI will make it hard to convince his doctors to seek the Medicare bonus for e-prescribing.
“We did everything right and we didn’t get paid,” said McArdle.
If you want doctors to adopt an initiative, you have to make the carrot more attractive and easier to obtain.
