Health officials tout computer prescribing

Courtesy Headlines from the Associated Press  Mon, 07/21/2008 - 15:34

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Those hard-to-read scribbled prescriptions from doctors could soon become a rarity. Beginning Jan. 1, the federal government will boost Medicare's payments to doctors that send prescriptions electronically to a pharmacy rather than writing them out on paper and handing them to the patient....


 

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