On Nov 1, 2003, at 12:10 PM, Richard Schilling wrote:
Looks like you just need Perl installed at this point.
Downloaded the code and checked it out last night.
Richard Schilling
On 2003.11.01 08:27 John Gage wrote:Fred, My interest is in anesthesia billing. In the first place, I wonder if there is anyone else out there who is interested in anesthesia billing (Gary, if you're listening, are you interested?)? In the second place, anesthesia billing contains some interesting quirks, and I will have to look at your project to see how it interacts. But, finally, were there to be as OS anesthesia billing project, it could easily make extraordinary waves. Really extraordinary. I am running the Mac flavor of BSD on a Mac OSX Panther operating system. Do I need to get a Linux box? John
On Nov 1, 2003, at 1:52 AM, Fred Trotter wrote:
As Tim just pointed out, I have just released the first functional version of FreeB. It works, it may not work well, cleanly or efficiently, but it does work.
It supports HCFA 1500 paper forms and the current X12 837p electronic
format. It supports moving HCFA files all the way to pdf files... that
will work on any ink or laser jet printer, attached to any computer
with
a pdf viewer.
FreeB sees a single bill event as a list of procedures that need to be
billed. Before now, FreeB was incabable of actually handling an entire
list. It could not procedures in one HCFA claim group needing to be
printed to different payers, now it can. Likewise it could not
dynamically handle multiple payers, insured and patients in a single
X12
claim. Now it can. What these two problems have in common is that FreeB
needed to be able to mirror some of the data structure that is inherent
to medical data in order to accomplish these taskes. Now it does that.
I will be quite frank about what I have released. It probably will not
work completley correctly for your project once you implement to API.
It
is hopelessly ineffcient, querying for the same data over and over in
for a single format.
However it is also; 1. Working and 2. Reasonably well documented
That means that I have made my code hackable. I have fulfilled the requirements to start an opensource project.
http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/cathedral-bazaar/ ar01s10.html
Quite simply, there IS NO WAY I can move forward without having the help of the project managers. The data required to really test a billing system fully is so complex that I really need to have a full application giving me live data, instead of the simulation that I have used to develop so far.
I need the help of each and every FOSS medical office or hospital
software project listening. I promise that if you help me now, I will
do
my best to turn this crappy billing system into something that is world
class.
With the community testing, developing, and using this system, I believe it is possible to solve the problem of medical billing for the FOSS medical community.
-- Fred Trotter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> SynSeer
