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Adoption of Medication e-Prescribing

CBE ID
0486
1.5 Project
Endorsement Status
1.0 New or Maintenance
1.1 Measure Structure
Previous Endorsement Cycle
Is Under Review
No
1.6 Measure Description

Documents whether provider has adopted a qualified e-Prescribing system and the extent of use in the ambulatory setting.

    Measure Specs
      General Information
      1.7 Measure Type
      1.3 Electronic Clinical Quality Measure (eCQM)
      1.9 Care Setting
      1.14 Numerator

      All prescriptions created during the encounter were generated using an e-prescribing system (G8443) that is capable of ALL of the following:
      1. Generating a complete active medication list incorporating electronic data received from applicable pharmacies and pharmacy benefit managers (PBM) if available
      2. Selecting medications, printing prescriptions, electronically transmitting prescriptions, and conducting all alerts for e-prescribing including undesirable or unsafe situations, such as potentially inappropriate dose or route of administration of a drug, drug-drug interactions, allergy concerns, or warnings and cautions.
      3. Providing information related to the availability of lower cost, therapeutically appropriate alternatives (if any).
      4. Providing information on formulary or tiered formulary medications, patient eligibility, and authorization requirements received electronically from the patient’s drug plan.

      1.15 Denominator

      All patient encounters.

      Exclusions

      E-Prescribing System available but no prescriptions were generated (G8445) OR
      E-Prescribing System available but not used for one or more prescriptions due to system/patient reasons (G8446).

      Most Recent Endorsement Activity
      Measure Retired and Endorsement Removed Care Coordination Project 2013-2014
      Initial Endorsement
      Last Updated
      Removal Date
      Steward Organization
      Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
      Steward POC email
      Helen.Dollar-Maples@cms.hhs.gov
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