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make more informed health care decisions. This includes
posting on an Internet Web site the names of those
physicians who report data on quality measures through the
PQRI as described above as well as other types of
performance measurement information. More information
about the PMRS SOR is available at
http://www.cms.hhs.gov/PrivacyActSystemofRecords/downloads/
0584.pdf.
O2. Electronic Prescribing (E-Prescribing) Incentive
Program
a. Program Background and Statutory Authority
As discussed in section III. of this final rule with
comment period, the MIPPA authorizes a new incentive
program beginning for 2009 for eligible professionals who
are successful electronic prescribers. Since MIPPA was
enacted after publication of the CY 2009 PFS proposed rule,
there was no discussion of this new incentive program in
the CY 2009 PFS proposed rule. We note, however, that many
of the requirements under MIPPA with respect to the new e-
prescribing incentive program are self-implementing. In
addition, section 1848(m)(5)(C) of the Act, as redesignated
and amended by the MIPPA, authorizes us to implement
certain aspects of the 2009 e-prescribing incentive program
by program instruction or otherwise. Given that the
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