Below is an at-a-glance overview of Medicaid e-prescribing data totals received for the first, second and third calendar year quarters of 2009 as compared to the fourth quarter of 2008.
Medicaid Quarterly 2009
E-Prescribing Metrics** |
2009Q1 |
2009Q2 |
2009Q3 |
2009Q4 |
Previous-year
Comparison
2008Q4 |
E-Prescriptions |
60,775 |
61,539 |
57,924 |
52,651 |
54,588 |
Avg. Total E-Prescribers |
798 |
794 |
666 |
557 |
763 |
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| Medicaid E-Prescriptions to all E-Prescriptions: |
3% |
2% |
2% |
1% |
4% |
| Medicaid E-Prescribers to all E-Prescribers: |
14% |
12% |
9% |
6% |
14% |
** Reported by the Florida Medicaid e-Prescribing vendor (eMPOWERx).
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Below are summaries and charts of 2009 Florida Medicaid e-prescribing metrics.
The first chart below shows an average of 704 clinicians used eMPOWERx to send electronic prescriptions between January and December 2009. This reflects an 8% decrease from the 4th quarter of 2008 when an average of 763 clinicians used eMPOWERx to send electronic prescriptions. When compared to the total number of Medicaid clinicians writing prescriptions in Florida, the data indicates that 4.6% of all Medicaid prescribers sent electronic prescriptions using eMPOWERx during 2009 representing about 1.7% of Medicaid prescriptions. The data indicates that each clinician wrote an average of 28 e-prescriptions per month.
There was a 0.3% increase in the total number of e-prescriptions between the months of January and December 2009. The number of Medicaid e-prescriptions sent during the month of December was 20,084 up from 20,029 in January 2009. This minimal increase was, in part, caused by a reduction in the number of PDA users. When compared to all Medicaid prescriptions processed in Florida for this time period, the data shows a yearly average of 1.7% of all Medicaid prescriptions were electronic prescriptions sent using eMPOWERx. This shows a slight increase from 1.3% of all Medicaid prescriptions that were electronic during the 4th quarter of 2008.
The second below shows total e-prescriptions, new e-prescriptions, refill requests from pharmacies, and refill responses from e-prescribers based on statistics reported for Medicaid by eMPOWERx. As shown, new e-prescriptions made up the greatest number, at about 56% of all e-prescriptions as of December 2009. The fastest growing type of transaction between January and December 2009 was new prescriptions with an increase of 1%. E-prescription refill requests from the pharmacy and refill orders both reflected a decrease during 2009.
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