I have been through the manual and followed the threads but cannot get started on printing a HCFA form. Would humbly request a 1,2,3… step program for making this happen including requirements (freeb and sql-ledger ?). We are a cash only shop so we give folks a HCFA to file themselves. Will document my adventures if I get it to work to be used later for all equally inept individuals.
Also currently working with our lab company (Spectrum) to populate their system with demographic information from our OpenEMR system. Any thoughts on the best way to send this. We need a form that will have a very consistent format so that their coders can write a script to pull this into their system. Will be sending this each time we register a new patient.
Printing to the HCFA 1500 form can be very frustrating and difficult. I got it to work without too much trouble only because I was using a vmware setup which I got from sunsetsystems which had everything running already. It ‘just worked’. There some good freeb info at oemr.org.
I am currently working on a program to put encounter data in a csv format provided to me by Zirmed. I am tired of having Medicare send my forms back with trivial complaints. I wonder if they are so strict when the patients submit them.
The Zirmed format has 299 fields which correspond to the fields in the HCFA 1500 form. My program is a simple php file which does not depend on any outside programs. Maybe this csv format would be good to pass this data along to other programs or for rendering a 1500 form without going through freeb.