I’ve been watching videos and trying to think about integrations for the past couple of days. I know the sftp option is there to send claims from a particular folder. However, there doesn’t seem to be a way to download reports and import them automatically. I watched a video on importing the 835 and wondered if there was a way to access that api some other way.
I had a few thoughts. If I created a .Net Core web application that ran on the same server as OpenEMR. It would be configured to auto download the reports into a configurable folder. I wasn’t sure if I would be allowed to create a web app, I wanted to find out from here. I’m also not sure how hard it is to install said web application on the servers. I’m a programmer and my linux abilities are limited to making linux containers work to run my code. I’ve avoided doing direct installs, I assume it shouldn’t be difficult though.
So, if the service is there and downloading reports to a folder, then if I use an api key, is that an option? I could hit the same urls as the import 835 screens. I didn’t know if this was remotely possible. Maybe somebody has a better idea? I thought about trying to build it in the PHP code, but PHP isn’t my thing and would take me a very long time to figure out.
I’m still looking for where to import 277 files. I got distracted looking at fhir api’s.
Next, if I get any traction from users, I would like to access the appointments fhir api and build a Real Time Eligibility option. This wouldn’t be right away and if I had enough users interested in it, I’d start designing the process.
If anybody would be interested in participating, I’ll give the openEMR community unlimited professional claims at $40 per provider. I would need to talk about your payers and if sending to Medicare, I would need time to get a submitter ID from your MAC if it is not Novitas. If I was charging more a month I would just pay to send claims and then get the submitter id, but since the price is so low, I need the direct send setup first. With Novitas, it only 2 took weeks to get it.