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Medicare Offering Bonuses to Doctors Who Use E-Prescriptions

Doctors are being offered an incentive by Medicare to start ditching old paper prescriptions in favor of electronic ones. The expectation is that e-prescriptions will reduce costs and minimize mistakes due to doctors' notoriously terrible hand writing. Starting January 1st of 2009, doctors will start receiving bonuses for using e-prescriptions, which are accepted by 80-percent of pharmacies in ...