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is, Measure #125) applies must constitute at least 10
percent of the professional’s total Part B allowed charges
for the incentive to apply. This limitation is designed to
target the electronic prescribing incentive payments to
physicians or other eligible professionals who have the
opportunity to prescribe a statutorily determined
sufficient amount of prescriptions and not provide
incentive payments of 2.0 percent of allowed charges in a
year to those physicians who do not have the opportunity to
prescribe a threshold amount of prescriptions. However,
this limitation does not affect the ability to report the
measure, but rather we will apply it in the final
determination as to whether an incentive is earned. See
the discussion below.
As initially required under section 1848(k)(2)(A)(ii)
of the Act, and further established through rulemaking and
under section 1848(m)(2)(B) of the Act, we may modify the
codes making up the denominator of the electronic
prescribing measure. We have considered whether to expand
the scope of the denominator codes to professional services
outside the professional office and outpatient setting for
2009, such as professional services furnished in hospitals
or skilled nursing facilities. Although we retain the
authority to update technical specifications of the measure
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