I want to create a template for a printable super bill customized for a practice.
This is a form that I will print out and hand the doctor. Our old billing system does this.
This is for offices where the doc is not coding in directly. He is used to checking off on a printed superbill and we key in the data from that.
Im just not really sure how to to about designing something like that OR if there is already something like that in openemr.
It should have on it the patient’s name and some demographics and notes at the top. t
THen section 2 will have our most common procedures printed out with boxes next to them, so the doctor can check off what applies.
Then section 3 will have our most common 50 or so diagnoses that the doctor can circle.
Optionally a section 4 woould have payment boxes on it to record patient payment.
How do I create such a form?
First I think I would have to add a new table or tables for
1. Most commonly used procedures. I would want it categorized by Office Visits, Consults, Surgical Procedures, Other, etc…
2. Most commonly used diagnoses.
I want the ability to go and change this form adding or deleting codes.
Hi,
We do a similar thing with superbill in our office.
Basically what I did was to scan our old superbill to an image and wrote a small perl utility which grabs details of tomorrow’s appointments from the openemr database and overlays on the scanned image. I run it as a cron job at noon everyday to print for the staff to pull charts and prepare. We are still in paper chart mode.
If you are interested please email me at braman@gmail.com
You could add a link to the existing superbill page which would open a new browser window/tab with a printable version that meets your criteria. This way, you could leverage existing code and probably not have to add a table. I am thinking of something similar to printable links elsewhere in the program, like in reports and patient report.
To clarify what I mean by the superbill page if you are using the latest version of OpenEMR, I don’t mean the menu option ‘Superbill’, which is where you can add codes and choose the option ‘Include in Superbill’. I mean the superbill page which you get to by going to the ‘Charges’ menu option when you have an active encounter and clicking on the link ‘Superbill’ under Coding. I am assuming you are using the latest version with the left sidebar menu with Top and Bot radio buttons to select menu options.