I agree, but right now there is effectively nothing that I am aware any of the volunteers had even looked at. Perhaps we can code it to go all of the way to an electronic submission without too much trouble. We will not know until we look.
On Thursday 28 July 2005 04:07 pm, Dr. Schrom wrote: > I'm not quite a complete newbie, have been following the archives for > several months, installed VistA/Cache but decided to wait for VO before > jumping in. > But I am a Doc in solo practice and am pretty good at billing. > HCFA-1500 and UB-92 are not really the way to go. While some small > practices are still allowed to use paper claims, Medicare's stated goal > is the elimination of paper claims. They have proposed adding a > surcharge for paper claims. The clearing house solution is costly, esp > for those of us in small practices on a budget. But, HIPAA requires all > payors to accept ANSI 837 V4010a formatted electronic claims. The 837 > format is not too difficult, and VistA, like any database ought to be > able to produce it. My opinion is that ANSI 837 is where future efforts > should be directed. > > Mike Schrom > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO > September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices > Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & QA > Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf > _______________________________________________ > Hardhats-members mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members -- Nancy Anthracite ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & QA Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf _______________________________________________ Hardhats-members mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members
