In 399 there is "RESPONSIBLE INSTITUTION", as well as PRIMARY INSURANCE CARRIER, SECONDARY INSURANCE CARRIER, and TERTIARY INSURANCE CARRIER.
In the AR package the 430 file points to the AR DEBTOR file which has a variable pointer to multiple files for who is the responsible party. On Sunday 08 January 2006 03:15 pm, Nancy Anthracite wrote: Greg Woodhouse and I were working on exactly this problem just recently, and someone gave us a suggestion for a field that was buried in a somewhat obscure place to get this data. It was a place that I frankly did not think would usually be populated, but might be used anyway because we were looking at what to do for an interface with LabCorp that any VistA user could pick up and install. I will go look at our notes if you are interested, but we had not made a decision on what to use. Let me see if I can find out what the VOE programmers did. On Sunday 08 January 2006 02:55 pm, Kevin Toppenberg wrote: I am working on porting demographic data from our billing software into VistA We have a field called RESPONSIBLE PARTY, name and address etc. We would use it if the patient was a minor, and we needed to record the information for the person (different from the patient) who will be responsible for payment. As I look through the PATIENT field, I see lots of fields that could possible be used for this. For example, .223 K-STREET ADDRESS, and .2125 K-ADDRESS SAME AS PATIENT'S? Is this issue addressed in VistA, and if so, which field should I use for this data? Thanks Kevin -- Nancy Anthracite ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7637&alloc_id=16865&op=click _______________________________________________ Hardhats-members mailing list Hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members