• Physicians benefit from a dramatic decrease in callbacks from pharmacies requesting clarification of prescriptions, plus clinical decision support and integrated patient prescription formulary data.
• Patients benefit from the safety features of ePrescribing software including the reduction of medication errors due to poor handwriting or unclear faxes. Our ePrescribing software also provides automated drug and allergy safety checks solution to improve the accuracy of your prescriptions.

Although there are several methods and systems a physician can be used to submit electronic prescriptions, only those sent through a qualified ePrescribing software solution, such as AdvancedMD, qualify as approved electronic prescription transmissions by pharmacies and Medicare. Methods not considered as ePrescribing include:

• Computer-generated faxes are not valid ePrescribing methods
• Computer-generated printed prescription
• Scanned image of a paper prescription
• Email, as it is not secure or in the required format for ePrescribing software

• 150 million phone calls from pharmacies to physician offices annually for incomplete or illegible prescriptions*
• $1,944 average yearly cost to a physician for prescription-related callbacks and rework*
• $5.00 to pull a paper chart (average cost)*
• 8.8 million ambulatory prescription errors annually*

^{*Source: Electronic Prescribing: Becoming Mainstream Practice, 2008 (June). A collaborative report from The eHealth Initiative and The Center for Improving Medication Management.}

Answer: Yes, with a qualifying ePrescribing software technology

• 2% electronic prescription rebate in fiscal year 2010
• 1% rebate in 2011 and 2012
• 0.5% e-prescription rebate in 2013

Answer: Yes

• 1% payment cut in 2012 for not using electronic prescriptions
• 1.5% payment cut in 2013
• 2% payment cut for 2014 and beyond for not automating the prescription process

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• Formulary-directed prescribing software saved an estimated $20-$25 per prescription*
• Henry Ford Medical Group increased rate of use of generics by 7.3% ($3.1 million saving in year)
• Center for Information Technology Leadership found ePrescribing software would save $27B/year

^{*Source: ePrescribing Collaborative Boosts Patient Safety with 8,000 Prescriptions Changed in June. 2006. Tufts Health Plan.}

• 66% feel that reducing medication errors is the primary benefit of ePrescribing software*
• 50% prefer the elimination of the need to mail, fax or drop-off prescriptions at the pharmacy*
• 25% favor the reduced time spent waiting for prescriptions*

^{*Source: HIMSS Vantage Point, April 2008}