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Which Gary are you referring to? Gary Kunkel > 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
