Anyone have experience with freeclaims.com?

jeff_ross wrote on Monday, April 14, 2008:

[posted by mistake to the Developers forum, so I’m reposting it here]

I’ve set up OpenEMR for a new, smallish clinic here. They are looking for a clearinghouse to use with OpenEMR. Right now we are using the calendar, and we’re moving rapidly toward billing.

We found freeclaims.com as a possible clearinghouse. It appears (if I’m reading thing correctly) that we can upload X12 claims to them. Has anyone here had any experience with them as a clearinghouse?

Thanks!

Jeff Ross

bdwderm wrote on Thursday, May 01, 2008:

I have not used free claims as I’m currently using Post-n-Track for the bulk of my claims (they are free and service has been great). You might want to check them out.

Have you looked at Office Ally?

Brent

rpl121 wrote on Saturday, July 05, 2008:

I have used Freeclaims for a year or two for all medical claims other than Medicare and Blue Shield.  They do handle Medicare and Blue Shield but charge 15 cents for each claim.  Therefore I send Medicare and Blue Shield directly to save the 15 cents per claim.  I don’t think they handle secondary claims.  Even when I create the claim file, their system does not handle it properly.

I am currently using "Send Claim," a third party program that works with Medisoft.  It is not necessary to get the newest and latest Medisoft in order to handle direct claims in this manner.

Recently I tried sending an office claim with Rod Roark’s current development version of OpenEMR, and the electronic claim worked fine through FreeClaims, and I actually got my check!

While the program works well out of the box for the Freeclaims clearing house, I found that sending the X12 files to Medicare directly was a bit trickier.  Medicare edits look for a lot of little things that are not quite right with the program as it is.

I tweaked the following files a little and got an office Medicare claim to go through:

/openemr/library/Claim.class.php
/openemr/library/gen_x12_837.inc.php
/openemr/interface/billing/billing_process.php

This required a lot of trial and error, naturally, but is seems to work.

I am now working on direct Blue Shield claims.  At this point I am still getting some error messages with Blue Shield.

I can’t say for sure whether it will work for Medicare carriers other than Highmark Medicare Services, but for me this is an encouraging development.

xiaoanri wrote on Saturday, July 05, 2008:

We just set up the openemr system and started using office ally as a clearing house.  So far we are able to upload to them the x12 file, and started to receive payments from commercial companies.  The medicare/medicaid line will need registration, which takes a few weeks; we have not send out any of those claims yet.   It is free for any month 50% or less of your total claims are medicare/medicaid claims, otherwise it will be $20.  Hui

robertlight wrote on Tuesday, December 28, 2010:

I too am trying to hook up OpenEMR to a claims clearinghouse.  Which one did you go with?  What has been your experience?

Recommendations anyone?

  -Bob

anonymous wrote on Tuesday, December 28, 2010:

See the page http://www.freeclaims.com/docs/pricelist.asp.  Domain name doesn’t match price list.