Insurance Fields - Policy and Group Numbers

mike-h30 wrote on Tuesday, June 28, 2011:

What are the rules for these fields?  The “Policy Number” field does not allow a hyphen but the “Group Number” does allow a hyphen.  We have patients whose “Group Number” is the same as the “Policy Number” ( which contains a hyphen).  This is throwing off boxes 1a and 11 on the CMS1500 form.  If this is a bug I will add it to the tracker.

-Mike

bradymiller wrote on Tuesday, June 28, 2011:

Mike,

There’s a current patch that is awaiting review that I think deals with this:
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3325205&group_id=60081&atid=1245239
Looks like the github commit is:
http://github.com/derekbrown/openemr/commit/8afb98dd75ef01b0a46f96b74e63931e648b4f1b

Does this fix your issue?

-brady

mike-h30 wrote on Wednesday, June 29, 2011:

Indeed it does.   I tested it on my dev box.  Thanks Brady!!

-Mike

bradymiller wrote on Wednesday, June 29, 2011:

Hi,
Just committed this to souceforge codebase. Note Derek contributed this code. Thanks Derek and also thanks Mike for testing it.
-brady