ideaman911 wrote on Tuesday, October 06, 2009:
Raj;
Are you using at least ver 3.0.1? Best is the latest 3.1.0. I am just after having printed two cases, a prime and a secondary, and verified each. Please assure you are using the CMS 1500 form ver (08/05). If your print is not aligning with the form, which is unfortunately the default, I would suggest you make revisions to the margin settings in the Billing_Report.php file which comes with Left:24 and Top:27 but I change the Top to 20 which seems to work for every printer I have used. Similarly, in class.ezpdf.php from line 118 change the four 30 values to 5 to get the print to line up with the pink pre-print form. That, too, has worked for every printer I am aware of.
If you have the patient DOB entered, and their sex selected in Demographics, they will display as the DOB in mm-dd-yyyy format, with an X in the box for the Sex in field 3. Also entered in Demographics are the insurance data, which will include the relationship (a drop-down - if self is chosen, the previously input address and DOB data will be copied there, which is why we do that for a child as well, then change the relationsip, name, sex and DOB as needed to save keystrokes). The relationship from there will print on the CMS 1500, but you must assure the proper insurance is selected in the Billing Report claim selection before you print. That goes to field 6 as an X in the proper box. Similarly, status goes as an X in a box in field 8, and was set with that insurer selection, all of whose data is set in the Demographics by selecting the Insurance box. And remember you must save at bottom or you lose all changes without any prompt!
Place of service is the default facility selection, and will be shown in 24B, but it can be changed in Encounter using either the Visit Category dropdown if you follow the directions I have detailed in other forums for adding Calendar Categories to change POS, or by selecting a different Facility from that dropdown.
The Diagnosis will be whatever ICD you have selected in the Fee Sheet and then select to Justify for each CPT or HCPCS, in the order you select them for priority. And of course do the Save. If you neglect to do the Justify, no ICD will display in 24, another reason I suggested using my "Justify Lockout" as detailed in another forum. Both those code sets and ideas were submitted for CVS, but have not been accepted for the distribution.
When you indicate "Both" patients, I am unsure what you mean, unless you are in newborn peds, whose ICD & CPT I do not know about.
Let me know if what I wrote does not resolve your problems - they sound like you have simply missed some data entry or select points along the way, because all the issues you mentioned printed fine in my testing. Best of luck.
Joe Holzer Idea Man
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