Re: Re: Clean Insurance Claim and HSA Service Statement Billing Company Help

[Guest guest]

I finally got my CMS1500 printing working.

It was very tedious to get all the fields printing exactly in the

right places! Took me a week at least of my spare time.

So, I can now print a CMS1500 with or without the red ink form as a PDF.

So, will Office Ally accept a PDF?

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> Graham,

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> I have a little Flash movie I made a couple of years ago

> that documents the features of Tkfp. It goes from the schedule

> through the process of writing a note using the templates, prescribing

> some meds, and finally generating a claim form for the encounter.

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>  http://alcald.homelinux.org/TkfpDemo.html

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> Basically to generate a claim, Tkfp collects the info from the form on

> the " Demographic " tab, which you can see near the first part of the

> movie.  During the note generating process, the provider adds one or more

 ICD-9 codes, and at the end, the provider is asked to select one or more CPT

codes for the encounter.

> The CMS 1500 insurance form is then generated. In the movie near the end,  you

can see the form briefly in " postscript " format which can be printed out on

paper. Postscript is very similar to .pdf in that it's designed for printing in

a consistent manner on

> many different types of printers.

> The postscript is generated using an open source Python module called

> " Report Lab " . I found a HCFA1500 form using Report Lab that someone had

already done, and was able to modify that. I actually started working on all

this in 1996. So it has been around a long time, and predates some of the more

well known EMRs that subsequently eclipsed it in popularity. This is because it

was designed and run on Linux which intimidates a lot of people.  The HCFA 1500

form was

> stable from about 1990 until about 2 or 3 years ago when they went to

> the CMS 1500, which required some re-programming to account for the

> NPI number and  few other changes, but fortunately I was able to

> modify the code so that it can print the new CMS 1500 properly. I

> send most of my claims electronically using a " print image " format

> that can go to OfficeAlly or MDOn-line. But I still have to print

> some claims on paper, because there are some insurance plans I deal

> with that are not on the payer list for OfficeAlly or MDOn-line.

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Graham Chiu

http://www.compkarori.co.nz:8090/

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