Genius Blog Maintenance

Hi-

We will be combining all of the blogs (chiropractic - podiatric - medical) all into one blog over the next week and closing this blog down. This will allow us to offer even better content.

Please join us over  at http://geniusmedical.blogspot.com

Thanks, Penny
(Genius' webby-news-geek-goddess)

Treatment Plan for Credentialing- Free Trizetto Webinar

A Genius Solutions' Clearinghouse Partner: Trizetto

Overwhelmed with paperwork? Learn how you can transform your credentialing and re-credentialing process.

TriZetto Provider Solutions, A Cognizant Company, (TPS) want to help you transform your credentialing process. TPS' experienced staff uses powerful workflow technology and a deep understanding of the details required by each payer to successfully submit and follow up on credentialing applications on your behalf.

Utilizing TPS' credentialing services enables you to: track progress online, reduce credentialing administrative time, increase revenue and decrease write-offs.
Whether you need assistance with first time credentialing or re-credentialing, their knowledgeable team can help. Learn how you can transform your credentialing process, allowing you to connect with your patients and impact your revenue. Please note, you don’t have to be a TPS clearinghouse client to utilize the credentialing services, this service is open to all providers!


Link to webinar registration
Time/Date of Webinar: May 22nd at 11 am CST

New Medicare Insurance Numbers - 2018

New Medicare Insurance Numbers - 2018

I am sure you have heard about the upcoming change to Medicare Patient Insurance numbers. (If not, starting in April all of your Medicare patients will begin receiving new Medicare insurance cards with new Medicare numbers - they are finally retiring the social security number from the cards.)

Make sure you update your eTHOMAS to the most current version, then you will be prepared to go through and set up your THOMAS system - insurance and patient policies to take in and begin using the new Medicare cards.

Here is the "HOW TO" document to walk you through the process in your THOMAS system. 

New Medicare Insurance Numbers 2018

THOMAS UPDATE SERVER is DOWN

If you have been trying to auto-update and you're getting an error, it is because the THOMAS update server is currently down. We are working on getting it back up. We do not have a current estimate of when this might be available. We'll let you know as soon as it is back up.

Update 5/22/17
The update server went back up late afternoon Friday, 5/19. It should be working perfectly. If you have any further issues, please call support.

Ransomwear Handling Suggestions Per Medicare

This is direct from Medicare's 

HHS Update #3: International Cyber Threat to Healthcare Organizations

"If you are the victim of ransomware or have cyber threat indicators to share

If your organization is the victim of a ransomware attack, HHS recommends the following steps:

1.    Please contact your FBI Field Office Cyber Task Force immediately to report a ransomware event and request assistance. These professionals work with state and local law enforcement and other federal and international partners to pursue cyber criminals globally and to assist victims of cyber-crime.

2.    Please report cyber incidents to the US-CERT and FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center.

3.    For further analysis and healthcare-specific indicator sharing, please also share these indicators with HHS’ Healthcare Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center (HCCIC) at HCCIC_RM@hhs.gov "

Added 5/17/17

For even more info, web addresses and updates check out Medicare's:

HHS Update #4: International Cyber Threat to Healthcare Organizations (Revised)

Genius First Friday Conference Call - Feb 3, 2017

The next Genius Solutions First Friday of the Month Conference Call is scheduled for Friday, February 3rd at 10:00 a.m. Eastern time.

Planned topics for the conference call (so far) are:

• MIPS - the Merit-based Incentive Payment System
•  eTHOMAS update released - What's interesting?

•    A more efficient way to send electronic statements
•    What are "Cycle Statements" and what's new
•    New prep claim
•    Claim detail improvements
• Final comments

Meridian Updates Available

You may have heard, we have an update for the Meridan issues.

No First Friday Call Jan 6th

Happy 2017!

We wish you a bountiful New Year.

We will NOT be having a First Friday of the Month Conference Call this Friday. If you have any questions or topics you would like addressed next month feel free to contact us.

Happy Holidays! & Holiday Schedule!

Genius Solutions will be open normal hours (8am-6pm EST) Tues-Thursday 12/27-12/29.
Genius will be closed for the holidays Fri-Mon both holiday weekends - 12/23-12/26 & 12/30-1/2.

Meridian Issues

Many of our clients are receiving a communication from Meridian regarding Taxonomy code to be required on all claims effective 01/01/2017.

At this time know that Genius Solutions is are working with Meridian to determine the what, where and how of this recent change. 

At this time there is nothing for you to do inside your eThomas program.  Genius Solutions will post more once this issue is resolved. 

ADAMS "Didn't Call"

DSL snafu week continues. 11/22 ADAMS reports may show "Didn't call" for some patients. They were called, but the results didn't load. :-(

Happy Thanksgiving 2016

We wish you and your family and awesome and delicious Holiday weekend.
Remember Genius Solutions will be closed Thursday and Friday (11/24-25).

DSL Line Down

Our DSL line is down right now, so you will not be able to send statements to us until it is back up. :-(
#geniussolutions #statements #DSL


Update 11/22/16
Trying to send statements? We've been told our DSL is not expected to be up before 9pm Wed, 11/23. :-(

#GeniusSolutions #automatedstatements



Update 11/23/16
Automated Statements are up and running. DSL- online. :D
#GeniusSolutions #statements #DSL #wereback

Happy 30th Birthday Genius Solutions!

We are celebrating our Genius Solutions, Inc. 30th birthday today. We want you to join us. We've created a little video to show you a little about 30 years of Genius and a big Thank-You to you, our clients who have helped us to get here.




As the video mentions - we would love to hear your Genius stories to help us celebrate our 30th birthday. Please feel free to post stories, thoughts, congrats, whatever you would like - send us an e-mail, post to Twitter or Facebook. You are part of our 30-year history and we would love to hear from you too.

2017 ICD-10 Revisions are Here!

ICD-10 code changes have been released for the 2017 fiscal year.  Genius is making your update to the 2017 codes push-button easy! But... First you have to update your eTHOMAS program.

Genius made updates to the ICD-10 master list. You will be able to import diagnosis codes directly from this list.  To obtain the new master list, you will need to update your eTHOMAS.  The version that contains these updates is 9.5.21.

If you would like to be an early adopter, you can call support this next week, and they will get you updated and started. After Sept. 19th you may do a regular THOMAS update to receive the same final 9.5.21 version, and will not have to call support.

For 2017, there are 1,974 additional diagnosis codes, 311 deleted codes, and 425 revised codes. The coding changes are to be used on claims with dates of service from October 1, 2016 through September 30, 2017.   To view a complete list of changes visit for professional claims you can view them HERE.  

After your update is complete, you'll have the ability to see changes to your codes that were previously imported.  Under the Utilities Tab >Maintenance>Check Dx Codes will provide you with a list of codes that are loaded into your THOMAS program, that no longer match the master list.  This will allow you to update the new revisions and deletions from the previous code set.

You will also have the ability to go to Code Files>Procedures>Diagnosis and choose the import feature.  Under the "Select For" drop down, you will notice a new category under each breakdown, with (2017) in front of the description.  These breakdowns include only the newly added codes for the 2017 fiscal year.

Would you rather watch and learn? 

Coming soon! Stay tuned to our YouTube Channel for video.

Genius First Friday September Call

We will be having a 2nd Friday of the Month call this month, on September 9th, please Click Here for details.

You can update to eTHOMAS v9.5.20 now!

Genius Solutions is excited to release our latest version of eTHOMAS, version 9.5.20.

This version is the first step in allowing you, our clients, to update your information at Genius Solutions without additional paperwork or phone calls (i.e. things like Contacts, keys, new doctors, etc.).  The first feature that has been added is Contacts.  Contacts are representatives from you business who Genius Solutions Support Department are able to work with, because you have authorized them as contacts for us.

The Support Department is currently contacting clients to update and some additional processing must be completed manually by us.  What does this mean for our clients?  If you are currently running version 9.5.20, you can contact our Support Department (option 6) and they will complete the short manual process, and walk you through updating your Contacts. If you prefer to wait, a Support Technician will contact you soon. Either way, if you update your THOMAS to this new version or newer, before we call each other, you will speed up the update process.


*Please Note: You do not have to call us when updating. Your program will not be hindered in any way if we cannot do the manual update tweaks for you immediately after you update. BUT, we will want to/need to do this manual adjustment for you as other future features will depend on it, so go ahead and update, we will be calling.

First Friday of the Month Call- June 2016

If you have topics you would like to hear about next month (July). Please send us an e-mail. :D

Happy May 5th & No Genius Call on Friday

There will be NO First Friday of the Month call tomorrow (Friday 5/6). If you have a topic you would like covered, send it in.

In the meantime- fiesta!

Billing with Navicure just got better!

Clearing House Update! Navicure/ eTHOMAS Working together, with a click, in EDI client. Billing with Navicure just got better! Genius Solutions and Navicure work together bringing you the ease of EDI Client. Now, with just a couple clicks, you can upload your claims, download your 999, 277, and 835 reports, while automatically unloading your electronic remittance (auto posting files) into eTHOMAS. Achieve better financial results with almost zero effort!