duanemorrow wrote on Friday, May 04, 2007:
FreeB is putting cpt code modifiers on another line instead of on the same line with the cpt code.
Is anyone else having this problem?
bo2999 wrote on Tuesday, May 08, 2007:
Are you using the latest FreeB in the CVS?
duanemorrow wrote on Friday, May 11, 2007:
Installed the latest version of freeb from cvs today.
No diagnosis codes at all showed at the bottom of the hcfa form. So there is an obvious problem with this version.
Had to revert back to the previous version.
sunsetsystems wrote on Friday, May 11, 2007:
You cannot upgrade FreeB independently from OpenEMR. The latest OpenEMR from CVS is required in order to use the latest FreeB from CVS.
bo2999 wrote on Friday, May 11, 2007:
There were many significant changes to FreeB version in the CVS to support NPI numbers. So you have to use the latest OpenEMR to support those changes.
duanemorrow wrote on Sunday, June 10, 2007:
When submitting a claim with a procedure with a modifier Freeb does not work correctly.
Instead of a single claim with a modifier it creates two claims, one for the procedure and one for the modifier. Therefore it is not putting the modifier on the same line as the procedure.
I have the most current versions of openemr/freeb and I’ve tried it by submitting a HCFA and by submitting a X12.
bo2999 wrote on Tuesday, June 12, 2007:
Just make sure that you use the SAME login name (provider’s name) when you enter both procedure code and modifier. If you login at different times using different names for the code and later for the modifier, then freeb will create two separated claims for different providers.
Hope that what you have.
duanemorrow wrote on Tuesday, June 12, 2007:
Its a single physician practice. In testing we do a single encounter-procedure with modifier, queue it, batch it, and up load to zirmed and it fails. So the multi login is not the problem.
bo2999 wrote on Tuesday, June 12, 2007:
When you enter CPT and an ICD9 code, did you JUSTIFY it first? You need to justify a CPT code with a ICD9 code for the ICD9 code to appear on HCFA Form. I do not know about X12 format, only HCFA. For our practice, we use OFFICE ALLY as clearing house for which we create HCFA text format using "making electronic text batch files button" and upload to their website. I can do this even on a remote windows box connected to linux server. Text file is easy to read and edit if we need to.
okhra wrote on Wednesday, June 13, 2007:
I also use OfficeAlly and I am happy with them for the subset of payers they handle. Do you get 835’s from OfficeAlly ?
markleeds wrote on Wednesday, June 13, 2007:
digitalmasters, have you tried out the zirmed.php script? you just put it in your openemr directory and point your browser at it. You may need to set a few hardcoded variables in the file. I’ll check to see if my version here is newer than what is in cvs. Check in the contrib directory to find it.
Possibly, the practice related hardcoded variables in zirmed.php may not have to be set at all. Zirmed maps your data to their system and fixes fields that always have the same data.
I have not worked on this script for a while because it works so well for me in its current state. If I have to print out a HCFA 1500 form, I still have to go to freeb for now, but I would like to experiment with using zirmed.php code to write a script to generate form data in a browser that will hopefully print correctly to a real form (using css formatting). I have only had to print one form to paper in the past year. Everything else went to zirmed.
bo2999 wrote on Friday, June 15, 2007:
So far, we have not received EOB’s from Office Ally, only payer’s responses. We received EOB’s direct from payers via mail.