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For the statements below assume that form 511=private, 512=workman's comp/Industrial, 513=medicaid, 514=Medicare. You may use any form type you want, of course.

 

Paper claim control

The following section shows you how to accomplish the following special options by building control files.

Use single digit place of service on the 511 form
Use a decimal point on the 511 form. Remember that most Medicare intermediaries do not allow the use of a decimal on the 514 form.
Put an "Amount Due Now" line on the Open-Item Statement. This will reflect the amount due on only those charges that have transactions posted to them.
Print balance forward statements for open item accounts.
Eliminates the diagnosis codes from printing on the statements

 

To get the single digit place of service on the 511 perform the following:

Quit the program
CD\ssiwin\4
EDIT M6R511.CTL
Use your text editor to add the following in lower case, do not insert any spaces
pos1char=yes
test by demanding a form and viewing the results.

 

To have the decimal point appear in dollar amounts on the 511:

Quit the program
CD\ssiwin\4
EDIT M6R511.CTL
Use your text editor to add the following in lower case, do not insert any spaces
amountdecimal=yes
test by demanding a form and viewing the results.

 

Statement control below

1. To print the amount due on this one form/page perform the following:

Quit the program
CD\ssiwin\4
EDIT M6R431.CTL
Use your text editor to add the following in lower case, do not insert any spaces
amtdueinbox=yes
test by demanding a form and viewing the results.

 

2. To prevent the balance from printing on a statement perform the following:

Quit the program
CD\ssiwin\4
EDIT M6R431.CTL
Use your text editor to add the following in lower case, do not insert any spaces
stopsmtbalance=yes
test by demanding a form and viewing the results.

 

3. To get open-item statements to print the total due now perform the following:

(amount will only be on the last page of a multi-page statement)

Quit the program
CD\ssiwin\4
EDIT M6R431.CTL
Use your text editor to add the following in lower case, do not insert any spaces
amountduenow=yes
test by demanding a form and viewing the results.

 

Note: if all 3 above are missing or set to 'no' then the default is for the actual patient balance to print on every form/page regardless of the transactions on a specific page.

 

To get balance forward statements for open item accounts perform the following:

Quit the program
CD\ssiwin\4
EDIT M6R401.CTL
Use your text editor to add the following in lower case, do not insert any spaces
doopenitm=yes
test by demanding a form and viewing the results.

 

To prevent diagnosis codes from printing on statements perform the following:

Quit the program
CD\ssiwin\4
EDIT M6R401.CTL ( or M6R431.CTL for open-item stmts )
Use your text editor to add the following in lower case, do not insert any spaces
printdx=no
test by demanding a form and viewing the results.