Any one know what this reference to Open Medical Billing Network is for

system · October 13, 2015, 8:56pm

teryhill wrote on Tuesday, October 13, 2015:

I had a client get this error today

Note: This code was not entered by an authorized user. Only authorized codes may be uploaded to the Open Medical Billing Network for processing. If you wish to upload these codes, please select an authorized user here.

She cannot tell me what she did to get it. This is generated in billing_report.php about line 1065 and 1111. Is this legacy code that needs to be removed or does it serve some purpose?

Thanks

Terry

system · October 14, 2015, 1:53am

cmswest wrote on Wednesday, October 14, 2015:

i heard about that today too, i think it comes from this section of code for claim balancing so it must activate the non authorized entry which triggers the OMBN alert.

system · October 18, 2015, 3:24am

aethelwulffe wrote on Sunday, October 18, 2015:

That junk has been in there since at least version 2.8. I will post suggested changes to the billing report here. I have a commit that turns that into something meaningful for billers to authorize the fees after scrubbing, see billing notes in the billing manager, and change that message to simply “this item has not been authorized”. It is a basic set of changes that are of great use to your billing submitters as well as getting rid of that retardedly embarrassing and confusing message.

system · October 18, 2015, 3:29am

aethelwulffe wrote on Sunday, October 18, 2015:

Btw, this is generated when a billing line item in a fee sheet has the authorization checkbox unchecked. It is checked by default. We set it to unchecked by default. After the note and billing are reviewed, it is set to authorized. Mere physicians are not allowed to do this.

system · October 18, 2015, 12:36pm

fsgl wrote on Sunday, October 18, 2015:

While tooling about in the 4.1.2 & 4.2.0 Demo’s, it appears all users are permitted to use the Fee Sheet & the Auth column is checked for everyone.

Tried unchecking the Auth column but the default persists. No error message popped up during this attempt.

ACO to authorize encounters seems to govern clinical notes & not the Fee Sheet.

Every charge I’ve entered has been authorized by default. Have yet to see a problem in this regard.

system · October 20, 2015, 2:31pm

aethelwulffe wrote on Tuesday, October 20, 2015:

$auth = FALSE
in your fee sheet. You must change the hard coded authorized checkbox to off, and set anywhere like the above variable value to false.
We also added another ACL member, which is ‘authbilling’. These are people that can check the box. No-one else but superusers can do this, as the box is not even visible…
Like so:

 if (acl_check('acct','authbill')){
    echo "  <td class='billcell' align='center'$usbillstyle><input type='checkbox' name='bill[".attr($lino)."][auth]' " .
      "value='1'" . ($auth ? " checked" : "") . " /></td>\n";}else{
	      echo "  <td class='billcell' align='center'$usbillstyle><input type='checkbox' name='bill[".attr($lino)."][auth]' " .
      "value='1'" . ($auth ? " checked" : "") . " disabled /></td>\n";}
    echo "  <td class='billcell' align='center'><input type='checkbox' name='bill[".attr($lino)."][del]' " .
      "value='1'" . ($del ? " checked" : "") . " /></td>\n";
  }

  echo "  <td class='billcell'>$strike1" . text($code_text) . "$strike2</td>\n";
  echo " </tr>\n";