PBS: Psychiatrist's and Psychologist's Billing Software
Welcome to the home web page for Blumenthal Software, makers of PBS office billing software for psychiatrists and psychologists. PBS has helped psychiatrists and psychologists manage their practices since 1977, providing single provider and multiple provider offices with a flexible inexpensive solution to the problems of billing and financial record keeping. The current PBS program, PBSW24, collects the data needed to print insurance forms and statements to patients and provides a variety of options for printing and reporting on the practice.
| PBSW 2.4 (new purchase) | $595 |
| PBS DOS to PBSW 2.4 upgrade | $475 |
| PBSW1 to PBSW 2.4 | $200 |
| PBSW2 to PBSW 2.4 This is a new version, with NPI; the upgrade is as of August 2006 |
$150 |
| Appointment Scheduler v4 | $200 |
| CD of any/all of the above | $25 additional |
| Telephone support (see below) | $50 per hour. Minimum= $25 |
| Updates | $10 |
Phone support for the first 6 months after a new purchase is free. Phone support for emergencies is free. Phone support for non emergencies generates a charge as described above. Please use email for support.
Click here for more information regarding PBSW2.
Please email me regarding your intent to purchase, and include your name, address, phone number, and any contact information you should provide. Make sure of the price (Pennyslvania state sales tax applies to PA residents), and then send me a check. (I do not take credit cards.
PBS was programmed originally in 1977 using Apple Basic on the Apple //. The PBS initials stand for Psychiatrist's Billing System or Psychologist's Billing System. I changed the name to PBS because the two programs were actually identical.
After the IBM PC was developed, I used Turbo Pascal for the PC. PBS version 1 for the PC used Btrieve to manage data files. PBS2 and PBS3 used BTree Filer, a proprietary data record manager from Turbopower Software, Inc. PBS DOS (verson 3) was introduced in 1993 and runs in a "DOS box" under Windows 95 through XP. I no longer offer PBS3 for sale. DOS programs have become much harder to support because the hardware and operating systems currently offered are tending to produce incompatibilities. In addition, the tools I use to create the program are harder to use on the newer machines and with the newer operating systems
PBSW was developed in 1995 with Borland's Delphi, a Windows form of Pascal. PBSW1 (released in 1997) used Paradox for its data files. PBSW2 was released in 1999, and used DBIsam, a Windows database manager from Elevate Software. PBSW24 was released in August 2006, and also uses DBIsam.
Street address
Jerome B. Blumenthal, M.D.
528 Palmer Farm Drive; Yardley, PA 19067
Electronic mail addresses
In early October, a SPAM problem occurred and Comcast stopped forwarding all emails from blumenthalsoftware.com to my actual email address. In order to contact me, you may have to use the following address, AFTER stripping out the word SPA_M. (e.g. abcSPA_Mdef becomes abcdef). This actually is my email address; the address at the website forwards all email there. It is usually better to use the website address, just in case I change from Comcast.
jerSPA_Mblum4@comcast.net
Because there are "spiders" or "bots" that
harvest email addresses from websites, and then send "spam"
to those addresses, I have changed the following email addresses
similarly to the above. Use them by deleting the SPA-M from the
address.
inSPA-Mfo@blumenthalsoftware.com
supSPA-Mport@blumenthalsoftware.com
Telephone = 215-702-9550
FAX number =215-702-9550
Note that this is the same number as our answering machine, so if
your fax setup requires you to wait until the phone answers
before you fax, then start your fax as soon as the phone
answers and you start to hear our answering machine message.
Do not keep waiting hoping to hear fax tones.
Cell phone (emergency support only please) = 267-391-8573. (Emergency support is defined as inability to get into your database and run the program, or any kind of data corruption.)
Please send me email telling me what you think about this website and how I might improve it. You can also send requests for support to the same email address.