Notice: This CMS-approved document has been submitted - Philips ...

CMS-1403-FC
each year through CY 2014, and then is fixed at 2 percent
for later years. For more information on the e-prescribing
provisions of the MIPPA, please see section 132 of the
MIPPA legislation enacted on July 15, 2008 (Pub. L.
110-275, http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-
bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=110_cong_public_laws&docid=f:publ275.
110.pdf).
We envision that the MIPPA-created incentive payments
for those prescribers who successfully implement electronic
prescribing in accordance with MIPPA guidelines will
provide the “tipping point” - an adequate level of industry
adoption of e-prescribing using electronic data interchange
(EDI) that would in turn move the entire industry toward
widespread e-prescribing adoption. We believe that data
from the e-prescribing incentive program under the MIPPA
and eventually from Part D e-prescribing will offer
evidence of the rate of e-prescribing adoption, therefore
making a study of e-prescribing for purposes of determining
e-prescribing adoption rates unnecessary.
We analyzed the industry feedback that we received in
response to the computer-generated facsimile exemption
proposals in the CY 2009 PFS proposed rule in light of the
recent MIPPA legislation. While the MIPPA legislation was
not yet been enacted at the time of the CY 2009 PFS
338