Mary, I would urge you to share more.  Programming is as much art as science and even the most experienced programmers can learn from others if they don't have an ego in the way.  Thanks for sharing!


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Tom:

I have attached two text files to this email since our IS department strips BWS files. Here is the deal with these.  I am always hesitant to �share� on talk because I find that most of the people out there know more then I do already! However here is what I can tell you about the above. I parse the data from the 835 into Access FIRST then I run query�s to extract the fields I want and use my existing batch posting routines, which work nicely.  The managers here use the data from the Access data base for denial management and f/u activity, creating a very useful tool. Why get all the data and not use it?

I have found with each additional payer I bring into this routine that they all have their own unique interpretation of the 835, which makes for fun each time, but is of course par for the course with all of the �conditional� fields of the 835 allowing them to do this! So the first thing I do with any 835 is open a new project and open it through data station as well as print out about 5 pages of raw data and compare where things fall and how they have �Interpreted� items, this allows me to (with MUCH HELP from BWS staff) modify my scripts to gather all the data I want.  We are a children�s hospital so our Medicare population is limited to ESRD so small compared to everyone else.  However the basics should still apply!  I imagine all this will do is give you a starting place but hopefully prevent you from re-inventing the wheel. 

For those of you who may look at this and have some �streamline� ideas I would be interested in your input.

Thank you

Mary

Mary Thompson

Special Project Manager

Children's Mercy Hospital

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From: Dobbs, Tom [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, November 11, 2004 4:38 PM
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Subject: [Talk] Medicare remittance

 

Hi, Does anyone have an example to parse a Medicare Part A 835 remittance file and post the payments into Meditech.

Thanks

Tom Dobbs
Programmer Analyst III
Information Technology Services
Ministry Health Care - Central Region
900 Illinois Avenue
Stevens Point, WI  54481
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