dchang67 wrote on Tuesday, September 13, 2011:
Can anyone help me in this problem. When i finishing billing a patient’s insurance i have a clearing house that submits our claims to the insurance companiesbut we have to be able to use the text format and as we open the text it all comes out in a straight line not in the structure of a CMS 1500 forum. Can anyone help me with this problem I would really appreciate it. Thank You
jperrien wrote on Tuesday, February 14, 2012:
I have a similar problem. My clearing house requires a text format and the hcfa 1500 that oemr generates is not aligned. The pdf hcfa 1500 is properly aligned but if you try to print a text output from the pdf it is all out of alignment. did you find any solution?
bo2999 wrote on Wednesday, February 15, 2012:
Actually it doesn’t matter if the texts are aligned or not. Your clearing house will be able to map it out. Just send a test file (.txt) to see if they can map it. The .txt file format generated by OpenEMR is in different format than windows and you open the file using notepad in windows. In order for text to align, you need to open it using wordpad and SAVE it AS TEXT format then it will be aligned.
On the side note, there is a logical error in /openemr/library/gen_hc1a_1500.inc.php file. When you have a patient with insurance assigned as ‘other’, it still mark as ‘FECA’ . Because the value ‘16’ was assigned to both ‘other’ insurance’ and ‘FECA’ (in X12 format) instead of using plain freeb_type value as it was supposed to.
Bo,
tcilia wrote on Thursday, February 23, 2012:
I have a similar issue when we print the hcfa 1500 pdf. We have to mail some of them in. The aliment is not right when we create the report from Windows XP client.and the claim can not be processed. The top half needs to go up but the bottom half needs to go down. If we create and print from a Windows 7 client the aliment is correct but it tries to print it as if it is 2 sided.
Anyone have any ideals. We have the OpenEMR running on Server 2003 in XAMPP. Any help would be appreciated.
yehster wrote on Thursday, February 23, 2012:
When printing a hcfa pdf, make sure that you “Actual Size” chosen as the size option. Don’t use shrink to fit or fit.
YMMV as to the specific settings names depending on your OS/PDF viewer/Printer Driver.
aethelwulffe wrote on Thursday, February 23, 2012:
In plain windows-user language, when you go to print the form, check the menu under “File” for “Page set-up”. That will show you the margins it will try to use (which are usually acceptable when printing a pdf like this), but you should look at the button “Properties”. After this point, different printers have different configuration options, but in the printer properties you are looking for a button that is usually called “Advanced”, and that will often have the scaling set-up in it. You want to turn scaling off. Select whatever will print it with no rotation, no cropping, scale 100%. For Brother Printers, the choice is usually a check box that says “Scaling - Off”. On most HP printers, you don’t pick the “Advanced” tab, you select “Features” where you will see “Re-sizing Options”. You will want to choose “Print at actual size”. Some print best when you choose “borderless” also, but try it with only the “Print at actual size” first.
You still may need to adjust the alignment options in OpeEMR, and you must use the correct form(most recent version CMS 1500 08/2005). The older form (12-1990) is still around for some reason….
tcilia wrote on Thursday, February 23, 2012:
Thanks I will give that a try.