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satisfactorily submitted data on quality measures for the
PQRI and the names of the eligible professionals (or group
practices) who are successful electronic prescribers. As
noted previously, this requirement cannot be applied
retrospectively to data that was collected prior to the
enactment of the MIPPA.
In order to implement this requirement we will report
publicly the names of eligible professionals who are
successful electronic prescribers for the 2009 E-
Prescribing Incentive Program. Along with the names of
eligible professionals who satisfactorily submitted data on
quality measures for the 2009 PQRI, the names of eligible
professionals who are successful electronic prescribers
will be available in 2010, in an easily understandable
format, on a Physician and Other Health Care Professional
Compare Web site at
http://www.medicare.gov/Physician/Home.asp?bhcp=1.
Accordingly, We will post on the CMS Web site the
names of eligible professionals (1) whose 2009 Medicare
Part B charges for codes in the denominator of the E-
Prescribing Measure #125 make up at least 10 percent of the
eligible professional’s Medicare Part B charges for 2009;
(2) who reported the E-Prescribing Measure #125 in at least
50 percent of the cases in which the measure was reportable
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