Hello:
I have been trying to get OpenEMR to work for my office, however, I cannot get the CMS/HCFA 1500 form to print with anything other than one visit per form in Box 24.
In looking over the helpfiles, I think I saw screenshots of these forms with more than one visit per form. Also, in reviewing the code in the gen_hcfa_1500.inc.php it looks like this file should print 6 lines as the HCFA allows.
I have a LAMP system, Debian/Squeeze3, Apache2/2.2.16, mysql 5.1.49, PHP Version 5.3.3-7, OpenEMR 4.1.0
Jason
No, I have not yet figured it out. It’s an important question to me as I do my insurance billing in batches so that patients can physically sign the forms that are either given to them (if I don’t participate in their insurance) or I send them out. Sometimes patients have several charges in a billing cycle, and one-line-per form makes this onerous. Would love some help figuring this out, else I may have to rethink my insurance billing approach.
Jason
You aren’t going to be able to figure this out because it’s not possible with the current code base.
The basic issue here is that date of service is tracked at the “Encounter/Claim Level” and not the “Line Item Level”.
X12 claims have the same limitation.
It will print multiple lines for multiple procedures like you want, but there is only one place to specify a date of service (on the encounter summary).
oemr.org folks, take note of this limitation as something to implement with respect to “line-item tracking.”
Thanks for your reply. I’ve posted this issue in both the Bugs and Feature Requests trackers. Hopefully we’ll get some help. I imagine there are other users interested in seeing this fix.
just wondering if your 1500 prints on the right lines. I know that there is a r-l and up - down adustment but my standard hcfa 1500 has the right alignment at the bottom and is off 1 line at the top. Is there a way to put the fields in the right place??
Yep, mine prints out just fine. Be sure that you select “Actual Size” not “Fit” in the print dialog box when printing the PDF. My horizontal setting is 24 and my Top setting is 20.
Um, About a year and half ago, I added an svc_date_ext to each line item in the fee sheet, just to use for hcfa billing for Continua-Care 501c3 in St. Petersburg. They went for-profit, and I kinda dropped contact with them. That was a 3.x version, and I only did it for them, and did it on their install, so I didn’t keep the code (the others don’t bill any hcfa, and/or don’t ever have more than one line per encounter). It wasn’t THAT hard to do though.
I’ll look into the quick-fix I did, and try to remember how I did it. It was one of those things where you can’t figure it out at first, you go to sleep and wake up knowing exactly what to do.
Come to think of it, I may have posted some code here…I’ll look, but I don’t think I’ll ever find it even if it did exist! This forum makes the LBF form table look user-friendly.