Moderator
Kathleen Nolan, M.P.H.
10/7/2008

I think we’ll go ahead and get started. So we have four speakers and I want to allow time for questions at the end. This is a session on Medicaid and E-prescribing, in case you were thinking it might be about Medicare. The goals of this session are to well, let me take a step back, when the legislation passed that established the Medicare incentives for e-prescribing in July. My first stop was great. We’ve done something. What about Medicaid? Should Medicaid be a part of these when we build on what Medicare is doing to create additional momentum and how should we go about doing it? And how can we build on what Medicaid is already doing in the e-prescribing area? And we have several speakers today who are very knowledgeable on activities related to new Medicaid and e-prescribing from the federal government that can give you an overview and a couple of speakers that can talk about the activities in their particular state. Just before we get started here and I introduce the first speaker, I had a couple of housekeeping items. I think you’re aware of these. I wanted to mention that CME credit is being offered today and it is found in the important information section of your meeting packet, comforts packet. Also, there’s a possibility that continuing education will be offered for pharmacists and that is on the works, and you’ll have an opportunity to apply for that after the meeting. I wanted to let you know that this session is being taped. The presentations will be available on the National CMS E-prescribing Conference Website. I believe the target date for all of that is October 15th so you will have access to all the presentations after the conference, and both this session and the Q & A will be taped. We’ve agreed in the interest of time that we’ll have all the presentations of the speakers and then take questions at the end of the session. We’ll have a – well, we have a microphone up here and I believe there’s a microphone that can move around as well, or you want to have people come up to the mic. Okay.