Michigan Blue Cross? You MUST sign up with Emdeon to continue receiving electronic remittance!

Per Blue Cross, providers must enroll with Emdeon in order to retrieve their BCC (Blue Cross Complete) vouchers and receive 835 transactions from Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan.  On Sept. 14th, if you have NOT signed up with Emdeon, you will longer be able to receive or access remittance information through web-DENIS.

Effective September 10, 2015, providers must enroll with Emdeon to retrieve their BCC vouchers and receive 835 transactions from Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan.


To enroll, visit emdeon.com (http://www.emdeon.com/resourcelibrary/#119) to locate forms and  information about the set up process. An enrollment guide (http://www.emdeon.com/resourcepdfs/Enrollment%20Guide.pdf) is available to walk you through the steps of completing the ERA Provider Setup Form for remittance files.

Be sure to have the following information available when you fill out the Emdeon form:

• Section 2 - Vendor Name: Blue Cross Blue Shield MI 
• Section 2 - Submitter ID: 382069753
• Section 3 - Receiver ID: 382069753
• Section 3 - Distribution Method: Select TSO ID from the drop down menu
• Section 3 - Distribution: I65V
• Section 4 - Payer ID: 32002

You can submit completed forms by fax at (615) 885-3713, or e-mail at batchenrollment@emdeon.com. Per Blue Cross/Emdeon, the processing turnaround time is about 72 hours.

Per Blue Cross, "if you experience interruptions with receipt of 835s, contact Emdeon at (800) 451-5059". I'm guessing this means after Sept. 14th.

Final Genius Focus Group of the Year!

September 2nd, in Lansing, was just added to the schedule.  
This seminar will be the last* Genius Focus Group added to the schedule this year.  It is catching the final overflow from the other recent Seminars.

Please know that it is filling fast (& when I say "fast" I mean it is half full in one day!)

Register now!

Click here for September registrations.

*(Please note:  September 18 - is Completely FULL!)

Navicure offering FREE LIVE webinar- "Collecting from Patients: Payment Plans"

Live Webinar for CEU Credit Collecting from Patients: Payment Plans Wednesday, August 19th | 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm EDT One hour webinar and 30 minute Q&A session With patient financial accountability on the rise, your healthcare organization needs to be in the position to offer options for patients to pay. Historically, payment plans have been expensive to establish and monitor, often resulting in spending more resources than that which is collected. Get all the details on Wednesday, August 19th at 1 pm EDT/10 am PDT by attending a free webinar: Collecting from Patients: Payment Plans. During this 60-minute webinar and a 30-minute Q&A follow-up, you'll hear Elizabeth Woodcock, MBA, FACMPE, CPC, discuss: Best practices in monitoring payment plans Streamlining payment plans How to automate the administration of payment plans Establishing payment plans that create a win/win for you and your patients Participants can earn 1.5 Continuing Education Units (CEU) from the AAPC by attending the live webinar.* Register for this live webinar today!    Medical Coding CEUs About the Presenter: Elizabeth Woodcock is the founder and principal of Woodcock & Associates and a nationally recognized revenue cycle expert and author. She has focused on medical group operations and revenue cycle management for nearly 20 years. Elizabeth is author of Mastering Patient Flow to Increase Efficiency and Earning, and co-author of The Physician Billing Process: Avoiding Potholes in the Road to Getting Paid. She is also a Fellow in the American College of Medical Practice Executives and a Certified Professional Coder.

DrFirst Offers a Free, New Service to You - Our ehrTHOMAS Users!

DrFirst Enhanced Notification System For Undeliverable Prescriptions

DrFirst is proud to announce the release of our enhanced notification system for undeliverable prescriptions. As part of your eprescribing license DrFirst has provided a dedicated team to monitoring the successful transmission of all prescriptions sent through our system. This service is now being enhanced to provide a more robust offering that will deliver alerts in real-time to your phone. With this new offering we expect that it will greatly improve the experience of patients visiting your office if a script becomes undeliverable to the pharmacy.

When a script is sent and is accepted by the DrFirst system we attempt to deliver that prescription to the pharmacy chosen by the prescriber and patient. If, for some reason, it cannot be delivered electronically, then DrFirst attempts to fax the script on your behalf up to three times. If it continues to fail, then the DrFirst Support Desk attempts to resolve the issue prior to marking the script undeliverable and returning it to the sender. Unfortunately, this can take some time to complete. Typically the patient gets to the pharmacy prior to the completion of this routine, resulting in callbacks, unhappy patients, unhappy doctors, and unhappy staff-members.

Our new service will deliver alerts after a prescription fails to be delivered electronically AND is not successfully delivered after 3 fax attempts, which takes about 10 minutes from the time the eprescription is filed. This models our current manual process that is followed by our dedicated monitoring staff but provides you the information at a much faster pace. Prescribers can now receive alerts on their smartphone or desktop via the DrFirst Backline secure texting app. We expect this will support most office workflows and facilitate the best experience for prescribers and their patients.

To begin using our new system please speak with your ehrTHOMAS Implementation team to begin the implementation process. DrFirst is providing training webinars if you would like to gain a deeper understanding of the new feature and ask any questions you may have. Please let the ehrTHOMAS Implementation team know if you would like to take advantage of this advanced training.

ICD-10 Flexibilities

In case you somehow missed the e-mails or announcements...

In early July, the the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and the American Medical Association (AMA) issued a joint statement about having some additional flexibility in the ICD-10 claims reporting process to help physicians with the transition, by making it just a tad easier.  Since then they've received and answered a lot of questions and have put together a document of important, need to know, information...  The new document is called:

"Clarifying Questions and Answers Related to the July 6, 2015 CMS/AMA Joint Announcement and Guidance Regarding ICD-10 Flexibilities"

CMS also reminds you to bookmark and regularly check their ICD-10 resources to help keep you in the know and in the flow for ICD-10.

ICD-10 website

Roadto10.org

And sign up for CMS ICD-10 Industry Email Updates

Getting Ready for ICD-10 with Genius!

We have created a “Getting Ready for ICD-10” document for eTHOMAS. Please check back often as we may add information to this documentation in the future.

GettingReadyforICD.pdf

Genius Summer/Fall Focus Groups

Genius Focus Groups

August 13 - almost full (about 6 spots left) 8/11/15 

August 19 - IS FULL!

September 18 - almost full (about 6 spots left) 8/11/15

Register now!

Click here for August registrations.

Click here for September registrations.

Shared Genius for June 2015

Shared Genius Practice Solutions From one Genius to Another.

June 2015 includes:
ICD-10, expire a provider, dTHOMAS, status review and more!

Available now!

TriZetto Provider Solutions is Offering Two Free Webinars in July!

TriZetto* Provider Solutions is serving up two free industry webinars "ICD-10 and Clinical Documentation Integrity" and "Strategies to Improve Scheduling and No-Show Management". Whether you are looking for more info on ICD-10 or having scheduling issues with patients, you will find our webinars educational and informative. Choose one or both but click on the date to register today because space is limited! (1 CEU offered for each webinar)

ICD-10 and Clinical Documentation Integrity

In the midst of a fast-paced industry, ICD-10 continues to be a hot topic as providers and payers furiously prepare for the Oct. 1 transition. Join TriZetto Provider Solutions ™ and Joy King Ewing, RHIA, CCS, CCDS, to discuss the major forces impacting healthcare reform and the financial implications of ICD-10. If your head is swimming with codes and information, get above water and join us for this webinar to help clarify questions you have surrounding ICD-10! 

July 15 at 12 p.m. CST

Strategies to Improve Scheduling and No-Show Management

Are your patients constantly complaining that they can't get into see you? Is every day a desperate attempt to simply hold the wait times down to a "reasonable" amount of time? Are you frustrated with the rising number of patients who fail to show for appointments? Join TriZetto Provider Solutions ™ and Elizabeth Woodcock to learn new methods for scheduling appointments and managing your appointment no-shows. From “freezing” and “thawing” appointment slots to strategies to prevent no-shows, this is the webinar for you if you need help in optimizing your schedule.

July 16 at 12 p.m. CST 

*Note: These are NOT Genius Solutions webinars, they are provided by TriZetto, and are being posted because they might be of interest to you.  If there are any registration or other problems, you need to contact TriZetto.

White Plume: ICD-10 Superbills

Special ICD-10 News Flash!

Introducing

A New Genius Partner!

Want an electronic Superbill for ICD-10 and to be trained in 45 minutes? We've got a Genius Solution for you!

White Plume says they can train a physician in 45 minutes and that your office can convert to ICD-10 in one day. White Plume's AccelaCAPTURE 6.0 can take your ICD-9 superbill and turn it into an active, clickable, ICD-10 superbill that is connected to your eTHOMAS. Click your way through to ICD-10 coding and billing success in minutes. Don't think it's possible? Find out more about White Plume and watch their two minute overview video to find out how.

Important DrFirst Info for our ehrTHOMAS Users

Two Important New Items from DrFirst:

1. Enhanced notification system for undeliverable prescriptions
2. Appropriate Use of the Pharmacist Notes (an educational download) 

2015 June Events!

Wow, we've got a smorgasbord of learning goodness for your office! Both from Genius, as well as some fantastic, FREE, webinars from some of our partners, designed to help you make and keep more cash.  Check on your calendar, register ASAP and prepare to be awesome!

June 16 Navicure Webinar

Strategies for ICD-10 Appeal to Success
(1 CEU available)
June 16 1 pm EDT

June 17 & June 18 White Plume Webinar

Practical strategies for physician practices to survive the transition to ICD-10

• June 17 10 am EDT
• June 18 2 pm EDT

June 26 Genius Focus Group Seminar - Detroit 9 am 

More information and registration. (1 CEU available)

Don't forget our Genius ongoing webinars for ICD-10 and EHR.

(Various dates and times.)

• ICD-10
• EHR