Navicure Presents: Business Intelligence in a Value-Based World

Live Webinar: Business Intelligence in a Value-Based World

Tuesday, April 19 | 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT

Earn 1.0 CEU* for attending the live event.

Business intelligence is a prerequisite for effective value-based medicine. Are you making informed decisions based on correct data to position your organization in a value-based world?

Find out by attending a complimentary webinar on Tuesday, April 19th at 1 pm EDT/10 am PDT: Business Intelligence in a Value-Based World.

During this one-hour webinar sponsored by Navicure®, you’ll hear national consultant and industry expert Deborah Walker Keegan, PhD, FACMPE, discuss:

• The current state of business intelligence by insurers, vendors and healthcare organizations
• How to develop business intelligence that drives informed decision-making and actionable change
• How to build a business value scorecard for your organization

Participants can earn 1.0 Continuing Education Unit (CEU) from the AAPC and PAHCOM by attending the live webinar.*

Register for this live webinar today!

About the Speaker

Dr. Deborah Walker Keegan is a national healthcare consultant, keynote speaker, and author. She is President of Medical Practice Dimensions, Inc. and a Principal with Woodcock & Walker Consulting. Dr. Keegan earned her PhD at the Peter F. Drucker Graduate School of Management, is a Fellow of the American College of Medical Practice Executives and is highly regarded as an industry leader in healthcare organizational change. With rich experience in consulting, education, and research, Dr. Keegan brings knowledge, expertise and solutions to healthcare organizations.

Navicure Webinar: ERA - Save Time & Money

Live Webinar Electronic Remittance Advice: Save Time & Money Thursday, October 29th | 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EDT Register Now! If you are not receiving at least 80 percent of your remittances electronically, it’s time to re-evaluate your remittance process. Manually processing paper EOBs is time consuming and costly. The good news is that it can be avoided. Learn how by attending a complimentary webinar, Electronic Remittance Advice (ERA): Save Time and Money, on Thursday, October 29th at 11 am EDT sponsored by Navicure. During this hour, you'll hear Kathleen Wrobel-Erlich, certified practice management specialist at Genius Solutions, discuss: The benefits of optimizing your remittance process, including increased staff productivity and fewer posting errors. How technology can help improve these processes. Handling ICD-10-related denials electronically vs. manually. Register for this live webinar today! About the Presenter: Kathleen Wrobel-Erlich, CPPM, has more than 25 years in medical practice management. She has managed both professional and facility based groups. Kathleen provides consulting services to provider groups of all size and all specialties. She currently works as a Practice Management Specialist for Genius Solutions, Inc, who designs Practice Management software and Electronic Medical Records Programs. Kathleen has an Associates of Applied Science in Business Management. Live Webinar ERA: Save Time and Money Thurs, Oct. 29th  11 am EDT Speaker: Kathleen Wrobel-Erlich, CPPM, Genius Solutions Inc.

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

Got Scribe?

If not, you might want to consider one (or more).

With documentation becoming more than just a word and EHR becoming a reality, most offices are trying to find ways to work more efficiently.  EHRs just don't seem like awesome replacements for sliced bread, especially if you've been practicing just fine without them for your entire professional career.  However, they are taking over, whether you want them to or not.  One of the best ways to cope with and EHR and its additional documentation and coding, yet still keep your sanity and your patient satisfaction can be for the doctor to continue being a doctor and dealing with patients face-to-face, while someone else scribes (or documents) patient encounters for the doctor – getting down all of the vital patient information, the doctor findings and responses, and any work done, as well as the recommended treatment plan.  

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.

Genius Healthcare Office Solutions 2013 Grand Rapids Seminar

Be An Office Hero!

November 7th

@ Grand Rapids Hilton
4747 28th Street SE
Grand Rapids, MI  49512
616.957.0100

Morning Seminar Time: 9 am - 1 pm
Afternoon Seminar Time: 2 pm - 4:30 pm 

Click here for more information.
Click here to view and print the event flier with registration.

Genius Healthcare & EHR Office Solutions

Be An Office Hero!

July 11

@ Warren City Center
1 City Square
Warren, MI  48093
586-574-4520

Morning Seminar Time: 9 am - 12:30 pm
Afternoon Seminar Time: 1 pm - 3:30 pm 

Click here for more information.
Click here to view and print the event flier with registration.

Billing Provider Contact Information- In Claims

Change is Inevitable.

Beginning April 15th,2013,  new edits will be going out to BCBSM EDI users:

A3 85 127 F906 BILLING PROVIDER COMMUNICATION NUMBER IS MISSING OR INVALID.
A3 85 127 P940 BILLING PROVIDER COMMUNICATION NUMBER IS MISSING OR INVALID. 
A3 85 127  F907 BILLING PROVIDER COMMUNICATION NUMBER IS MISSING OR INVALID.
A3 85 127  P941 BILLING PROVIDER COMMUNICATION NUMBER IS MISSING OR INVALID.

All of the new edits are triggered by the incorrect reporting of billing provider contact information (phone/fax/e-mail).

Per BCBSM EDI, "Submitters may avoid receiving one or more of the edits by ensuring that they report telephone numbers and fax numbers in the correct format - 10 numeric only, without spaces or special characters."

Per BCBSM EDI, these edits will definitely apply to Medicare Advantage claims.

Why did I put this in here generally - instead of just marking it for Michigan only?  Because this is probably a trend.  You need to read your EDI bulletines regularly to know what changes are being made in your area.  There are always changes.  Also, something like this "contact info" change, is the kind of trend that you will see spreading fast.

So-

1. Check your bulletins (and feel free to send us a note about any changes in your local area- you may be saving fellow offices a lot of grief, and
2. Make sure your provider contact information is correct and accurate.

Got Compliance? What’s in your Office Manual?

As we are quickly approaching the end of the year and you are considering beginning or updating your office compliance manuals… These are some important items to be aware of, especially if you haven’t heard of them or were unsure what they really were.  These three items desperately need to be included in your office practices, policies, and compliance plan, or they could be devastating to both you and your office:  The Sunshine Act, The Medicare Enrollment Revalidation Initiative, and ACA Overpayments.  Also be advised, as each of the legal pages I read stated: the following are guidelines and best understanding.  For any actual legal advice particular to office and procedures, you should seek final guidance from your own legal guides.

 

How to Make Sure You Keep More of Your Money

I’ve mentioned in the past that there is a great resource I recommend for current practice knowledge and chat- it is Physician’s Practice, which you can find at www.physicianspractice.com.  It doesn’t cost anything to sign up there, but it is well worth it for the office and coding tips and tricks alone.  I noticed a theme over the last month or so in their Practice Pearls e-mails and pulled a bunch of collected office wisdom for you.  I will post the articles I used at the end so you can go read them in their entirety.  Some come from this year’s MGMA conference in San Antonio, TX where they collected some current thoughts and discussion on meaningful use and best office practices.  This is all new and current stuff.

First off – Verify, Check, double-check, and Confirm.

Florida Seminar Rescheduled

Due to circumstances beyond our control, we are rescheduling the Genius Solutions healthcare seminar in Pensacola, Florida From Oct 9, 2012, to Friday, February 1, 2013. All of the rest of the times, location, and information are the same. Please mark your calendar for the new date and get ready to visit with us in February. We are looking forward to visiting with you!

We will post an updated flier and send out a new e-mail as soon as the Florida seminar reschedule has gone through the final approvals.

Genius Healthcare Office Solutions Presents: The 2012 Florida Seminar

   

Genius Healthcare Office Solutions:
The 2012 Florida Seminar

Oct 9th - Register Now!
9am - 5 pm
$99.00 Per Person
@ Crowne Plaza
200 E. Gregory St.
Pensacola, FL 32501
850.433.3336

More Information
586.751.9080 or seminars@geniussolutions.com
Topics Include:

• Office Compliance Plans
• Best Office Practices
• ICD-10
• Tech Talk
• THOMAS Tips & Tricks
• And More!

Genius Healthcare Office Solutions: The 2012 Seminar

   

Focus on 5010 and much more!

Join Genius Solutions and your fellow healthcare office-in-arms experts for a special 1-day seminar to discuss all of the current, hot healthcare office topics. Learn new THOMAS tips and tricks and learn about ways that you can protect your office better. Also, prepare to discuss upcoming and new items such as 5010, ICD-10, and how easy it can be to implement a compliance program in your office.

June 26th at the Troy Marriott in Troy, MI


9am-1pm
Only $50 (per person)

More Information?
Call us at 586-751-9080
Fax questions to us at 586-751-9230
e-mail , and fill-out-and-fax-this-form, if you would like to join us for this seminar.

 *Click Here for the brochure.*

5010 - You should be doing it now!

Since 3/31/2012 was the last deadline for mandatory 5010 electronic claims, you should be doing 100% 5010 now. Genius believes everything is working well in THOMAS including commercial claims. We have heard of few problems.  The few that are having problems are payors trying to get things set up at their end to handle 5010 claims- including Health Plus (in MI), some DME, and the occasional other insurance company (& you can do an "exception" to 5010 billing for just those insurance companies that are still requiring 4010 only for now).

The Genius Focus Group Seminars are FULL!

Hi Everyone - I get to be the bearer of possibly unhappy tidings.  The seminars are completely full for both Wednesday and Thursday. So if you weren't signed up by yesterday, you will probably not be able to make this round.

I have not yet heard if any additional days will be offered.  As soon as I get any new information, I'll pass it along.

Thanks.  PS - We are really looking forward to seeing all of you!

We're Back - Focus Group 2011!

Focus on 5010 and More!  Click Here for more details and registration.

Save a Life Doc

Ok, you are probably going to have raised an eyebrow by now.  Good.  You doctors are trained to help people and save lives and we all know this, but what about the rest of your office staff?  Patients don’t come to your office because they feel good.  Heck, if they’re as bad as me, they won’t show up until they are dying or practically dead.  That being the case, are your staff trained as first responders?  When minutes count can they act until you can be grabbed or reached to help?  How about an AED machine?  Do you have one in your office?  Is it easy and quick to get to from the front or from one of your exam rooms?  You care about your patients enough to be there long hours every day; do you care enough to make sure your whole office is prepared to assist you in your work?

Do you know what day it is for your back up?

It shouldn’t be like pulling teeth to do a backup.  Nobody wants to get their teeth pulled out, it hurts!  So why is making a daily backup like pulling teeth in most offices?  As kids my mom tried to help us remember to do daily things like brushing and flossing by having us mark a calendar with cute stickers we could earn when we had done it.  We could have stickers for every day, MTWTFSS.  It just took some follow-up and a bit of time to make it a habit.  Well, now that you are all grown up I want you to consider MTWTFSS backups. I know, you are probably wondering why anyone would compare brushing and flossing to backups, but I’m going to tell you why… both should be done daily or the long term consequences are costly, bad, and you could lose it all.  Do you know what day it is? Do you know where your back up is?

ICD-10 Deadline Fast Approaching- Only 28 Months Away?

By Penny Henriksen, Genius Solutions' News Editor

Ok, yes, I can hear you rolling your eyes.  You're thinking, "28 months, are you kidding?  That's 2 years and 2 vacations away...really?" Being out and about over the last year and speaking with many of you I also have actually heard "Yeah, but it's the CMS.  It's going to get bumped."  Let's reason together for a few minutes and reflect on this, shall we?

Genius Solutions Presents: Coding Review Boot Camp w/ Karen Zook

Click on the flier for more information.

 

Take Command

Join us for a 2-day seminar of coding training & review Karen Zook walks you through everything you need to prepare to be a professional coder. You will learn how to code better, quicker, and properly to maximize both office payments and audit protection. It is also very beneficial to participate in a boot camp prior to taking a coding
certification exam. You will also earn 14 AAPC CEUs for this boot camp.

Seats are limited.* Reserve your spot today!

If you would like to register now, please complete and fax in this registration form. You can also download the flier (w/registration form) HERE.

Please fax your completed registration form to 586-751-9230.