August 2014 support special includes:
THOMAS date tricks, billed claims, and more!
Available now!
8/27/2014
Shared Genius August 2014 Edition
August 2014 support special includes:
THOMAS date tricks, billed claims, and more!
Available now!
8/12/2014
It Takes a Billing Class to Train Some Geniuses
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| PR Henriksen, the character |
Me? I started at Genius in support, as part of the software geek zone (with some generally nerdy hardware tendencies).
8/04/2014
Transparency and Leaving Doctors’ Data Hanging out in the Breeze
The Sunshine Act was passed as part of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (health care reform) in 2010, but CMS decided to delay data collection in connection with the act until 2013. The Act was designed to give transparency to the money and dealings between physicians, pharmaceutical companies, medical device and other medical supply manufacturers, as well as ownership or investment interests in group purchasing organizations. Physicians and manufacturers are to report (or disclose) any and all such incentives and payments they receive to CMS. Payments need to be reported by date and amount as well as list the nature of the payment or incentive (i.e. gifts, meals, speaking honoraria, etc).
The thought was that if these little promos, pluses, gifts, and payments were known, it would cut down on things like drugs being dispensed because doctors got good gifts and perks, rather than prescribing what would be best for their patients or possibly lying about results or usage for drug reporting purposes. That’s not giving doctors very much credit in my book.
8/01/2014
Finally! CMS Announces New ICD-10 "GO" Date
Interesting, the article doesn't note anything about a comment period, it simply says, this is the date. I guess nothing but bumping the date ahead, might not need an additional comment period as it had been done before.
So, what are you doing now to prepare?
7/22/2014
Shared Genius: July 2014
July 2014 support special includes: Claim Forms, Genius Solutions Training
Available now!
7/11/2014
e-Statement Printing Confirmations
If you use our e-Statement service, you will receive a fax confirmation when the statements are printed. When you sends 2 files (one for each system- especially if you send one from dT and one from eT), and they are printed at the same time, you will only receive a confirmation for the first file processed.
We recommend that you only send one file at a time, wait to receive the fax confirmation from that first file, and then send your next e-Statemtent file. This way you will receive a confirmation for each file.
We recommend that you only send one file at a time, wait to receive the fax confirmation from that first file, and then send your next e-Statemtent file. This way you will receive a confirmation for each file.
6/25/2014
Shared Genius: June 2014
June 2014: 277s, "bad address", appointments, time blocks, & more!
Available now!
Editor Addition:
In the e-mail I posted that the new date for ICD-10 was Oct 1, 2015 (after finding said information in more than three good sources). In investigating further, we crawled through the CMS website and this is the wording posted:
"On April 1, 2014, the Protecting Access to Medicare Act of 2014 (PAMA) (Pub. L. No. 113-93) was enacted, which said that the Secretary may not adopt ICD-10 prior to October 1, 2015. Accordingly, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services expects to release an interim final rule in the near future with a new compliance date for the use of ICD-10 codes beginning October 1, 2015. The rule will also require HIPAA covered entities to continue to use ICD-9-CM through September 30, 2015. "
So, the current date that has been listed of Oct. 1, 2015 is really wishful/hopeful thinking by everyone. (Although it does look like CMS is hopeful for the same thing.) According to the above paragraph the "interim final rule" has yet to be created or released, after which there is always a 60-day comment period, and then, eventually, a final rule will be issued. There is no date on this note on the CMS website either, so we'll all have to check back into this page to see when some movement begins to occur. So, continue not panicking, and definitely continue to prepare for ICD-10 implementation.
6/17/2014
Michgan Blues Claim Filing DEADline
If you submit a claim after the filing limits, BCBSM will not offer any special handling or filing extensions, and no payment will be due from BCBSM or the subscriber. All health care providers must follow claim-filing deadlines (as you can see, there are no exceptions here).
For more information about this change, please refer to the March 2014 Record.
Blue Cross defined the local contracts, which have been migrating to their new system and will be completely migrated mid September.
These local contracts include:
- Local and Medicare Advantage group numbers: Five digits
- MOS group numbers: Nine digits
- NASCO group numbers: Five digits, usually starting with a seven or eight
- BCN group numbers: Eight digits
Any clam submitted with one of the local contracts (listed above); whether it is a secondary, resubmission, or original needs to be received by Blue Cross no later than September 15, 2014 or it will not be processed.
Patients with local contracts should have received a new contract number to go through the new system.
You can contact Provider Inquiry at Blue Cross of Michigan for more information.
Provider Inquiry Information:
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5/21/2014
Shared Genius: May 2014
May 2014 support special includes: ICD-10: New Date!, ehrTHOMAS, Railroad Medicare, UB04, CMS-1500, Pre-billing errors and more.
Available now!
5/16/2014
It's Official! ehrTHOMAS is ONC HIT 2014 Certified
Who is ONC HIT 2014 Certified? ehrTHOMAS is!
It is official. Genius Solutions, Inc.'s ehrTHOMAS has received our ONC HIT 2014 Edition Complete Certification from ICSA Labs. Yep, we're glowing right now. Our programming department has been working very hard to not only get ehrTHOMAS ready, but to get it through certification. Now it's here.
Want to know more about our ONC HIT 2014 Certified Complete EHR?
Oh, and you can call us at 1.586.751.9080/1.800.645.0955 (outside of Michigan) and ask for Sales, they'll be happy to give you a tour!
If you haven't gotten our letter yet, you should shortly. It is as follows:
4/21/2014
Shared Genius: April 2014
April 2014 support special includes: ICD-10 delay, NDC updates, Railroad Medicare
Available now!
4/09/2014
THOMAS Users: NDC Update and View!
Visit our YouTube channel at www.youtube.com/geniussolutionsinc
Sincerely,
Genius Solutions
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