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Washington -- The trade group representing pharmacy benefit managers has launched a campaign urging Congress to require physicians to use electronic prescribing in Medicare.
Switching from paper-based drug orders to e-prescribing would be the right move from both a financial and safety standpoint, says the Pharmaceutical Care Management Assn. In a PCMA-commissioned study, the Gorman Health Group concluded that requiring doctors and pharmacies to handle all Part D prescriptions electronically by 2010 would reduce federal health care costs by $29 billion and avoid 1.6 million adverse drug events over the next decade.
"Physicians are eager to adopt new technologies that have the potential to increase patient safety and quality of care, but hitting doctors with an unfunded e-prescribing mandate at the same time the government plans to cut Medicare physician payments 10% next year is untenable," he said.
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