It doesn’t seem to do anything. I’m assuming it should execute the process_bills.php script. I created a cpt/icd9 code for an encounter. It shows up on the biling screen. I queued it for processing. Clicked “Start Batch Processing” link, dialog box pops up, says it’ll take a while" – nothing is generated, unless it puts it somewhere else. I manually executed process_bills.php and it works as expected, the x12 files is created and put under public directory of /usr/share/freeb. So I’m curious what Start Batch Processing is supposed to be doing.
openemr/library/freeb needs to be owned by the webserver (in my case chown -R apache:apache). Then the process kicks off fine. I’m wondering, should the whole tree be owned by the webserver or not?
Batch processing takes a bunch of X12s and creates a single file for transmission for billing. So when you click on it it should give you a download dialog for this file.
Are you saying is should as in it would be nice if that happened or are you saying that is how it works? The file that is created is put in /usr/share/freeb/public directory from my experience. I tried it using the “Start batch processing” and that’s what it does (since it just calls the process_bills.php as if you executed it from the command line). Perhaps that would be a nice addition, yes?
No thats how it works. Processed claims are place in the /freeb/public directory (PDF or EDI), but the Start batch creates a file with a bunch of EDIs for e-billing. This way you dont have to do a bunch of individual transmittions to the billing company you just submit one file.