PHYSICIANS: Beware Of Hurdles In Brave New E-Scrip World
New technology also means new problems to look out for.
The Medicare Modernization Act calls for the Centers forMedicare & Medicaid Services to encourage the development of electronic prescriptions. But even if the federal government appears to be smiling on paperless scrips, don't rush into a legal tangle.
The MMA is vague on the subject of e-prescriptions, but instructs CMS "to give some kind of benefit or incentive towards using the electronic pharmacy" tools, says attorney Wayne Miller with the Compliance Law Group in Woodland Hills, CA. It gives CMS a mandate without spelling out how to carry it...
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