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 | $20 |
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
I am providing you, below, with two email addresses. One is
the address from the website, and the other is my current
personal email address. It is usually better to use the website
address, just in case I change from Comcast. Because there are
"spiders" or "bots" that harvest email
addresses from websites, and then send "spam" to those
addresses, I have changed the way the addresses are written,
below. You will have to delete the letters SPA-M from the address.
supSPA-Mport@blumenthalsoftware.com
jerSPA_Mblum4@comcast.net
Telephone : Until March 2010, it was possible to
phone the fax number, below, and leave a voice message, but I
discontinued that phone line except for faxes. If you have a
message that is so urgent that it cannot be faxed or emailed, you
will have to use the cell phone number. I prefer emailed
questions for many reasons, not the least of which is that it
forces you to phrase the question with precision; sometimes,
writing the question down can suggest the answer to you before
you send it to me.
FAX number =215-702-9550
Cell phone = 267-391-8573.
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.