Sender Code Invalid for Availity for BCBS FL

hitechelp wrote on Friday, July 26, 2013:

Art, Thanks to your code snippet, we’re good with BC/BS FL ;o)
No more manual editing of our BC/BS x12 batches going to Availity.

Just a couple things to point out for those following along; This forum does not handle code posts well due to certain characters that do not show up, such as “asterisks” enclosed in quotes! (which is why Art posted a link to his code,) but not knowing that little tidbit in advance, I just copied the code out of his post and then spent several hours of head banging diagnosing why it wasn’t working.

Thanks again,

-David

hitechelp wrote on Friday, July 26, 2013:

For fellow Florida OpenEMR users with BC/BS problems using Availity; here is the code snippet with explanation on how to insert it.

aethelwulffe wrote on Friday, July 26, 2013:

David,
So good to hear your Florida Blue claim pains are back into the realm of reasonable. Got word from Preston that their claim went through as well, but still got rejected due to then not doing Florida Blue credentialing. I told them that I saw something on Availity about credentialing via Availity…but did not look too closely. Not into multi-tasking, so I stuck to what I was doing: though I certainly have multiple tasks I am responsible for (that are late).

hamdpa wrote on Sunday, May 01, 2016:

Hello to all,
With the recent upgrade to 4.2.1 I found once again that the Florida Blue claims are being returned with “Sender code is invalid”. Thus I followed this threads fix as I have done previously when this happened with the previous upgrades, but now when you attempt to generate an X12 batch the screen turns white and no batch is generated. There appears to be something that is not allowing php to generate the X12 batch.
I also tried just adding the following lines in the appropriate place, but that didn’t work either. Same result.

} else {
if ($claim->payerID()==‘00590’) {
$out .= “*” . “BCBS#”;

Would greatly appreciate someones help.

Thank you,
Henry

fsgl wrote on Sunday, May 01, 2016:

Hi Henry,

Generate the 837P again, note the time, look in /var/log/apache2/error.log for any fatal errors around that time. White screens usually will give a fatal error message.

Another user is having alignment problems of his NationNote form after upgrade. If you use the NT form, have you noticed anything similar?

hamdpa wrote on Sunday, May 01, 2016:

Hi fsgl,
Yes have noted alignment change when initially opening modified NT form, but it straightens itself out as you continue to fill out the form. So no big deal, i.e. “alls well that ends well”. Will check out error file.

Thank you,

Henry

hamdpa wrote on Sunday, May 01, 2016:

Hi fsgl,

Yes noted alignment problems with NT form with this version, as well as prior version, but they straighten themselves out as yoh continue to fill out the form. No big deal. Will take a look at the error file.
Thank you,

Henry

fsgl wrote on Sunday, May 01, 2016:

Thanks for the feedback on the misalignment.

The misalignment occurred when I had to reinstall 3 years ago, so I had to play around with the layout. Sounds like the WYSIWYG is not functionally affected by reinstalls nor upgrades.

hamdpa wrote on Sunday, May 01, 2016:

Hi fsgl,

Yes noted alignment problems with NT form with this version, as well as prior version, but they straighten themselves out as yoh continue to fill out the form. No big deal. Will take a look at the error file.
Thank you,

Henry

hamdpa wrote on Sunday, May 01, 2016:

Hi fsgl,

Yes noted alignment problems with NT form with this version, as well as prior version, but they straighten themselves out as you continue to fill out the form. No big deal. Will take a look at the error file.
Thank you,

Henry

hamdpa wrote on Sunday, May 01, 2016:

Hi fsgl,

Yes noted alignment problems with NT form with this version, as well as prior version, but they straighten themselves out as you continue to fill out the form. No big deal. Will take a look at the error file.
Thank you,

Henry

hamdpa wrote on Monday, May 02, 2016:

Hi fsgl,

Will check the error file. I have noted alignment issues when opening NT form, but it clears itself after filling out a couple of nation notres. No big deal.

Thank you,

Henry

hamdpa wrote on Wednesday, May 18, 2016:

Hi fsgl,

Sorry for the repeat posts. I didn’t realise the thread had added another page. Good news! After learning some php and perserverance I was able to fix the fix. Attached is the new script that I have tried and is working for me. Just follow the previous explaination of what to do. Copy the script and paste into the same area of code, which is now at about line 140.

Hope this helps others.

Henry