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MEDTAX (v3)
by Michael Reich
MEDTAX is a program designed to
help you keep track of your family's
medical expenses and insurance reim-
bursements, either for tax purposes or
general record keeping. It enables you
to track how much was reimbursed by
your insurance plan and what type of
expenses you had (such as doctors, den-
tists, etc.), and it can provide you
with up to date figures at any time.
MEDTAX is a mini-database which
sets up a sequential file of data on
disk. The fields of information main-
tained are expense, date, type, and
amount, as well as the amount reim-
bursed, provider name, and family mem-
ber name. The six fields for each re-
cord are packed into a 34 character
string (EN$) for storage.
The type and family name fields
will only accept single-digit codes in
order to save space in the computer
and data file. The family members'
names are read into an array (PE$) in
lines 55-60 and can be changed from the
menu. The field names and their loca-
tions in the record string are defined
in lines 80-84.
One important line to note is 50.
In addition to dimensioning several
string and numeric arrays, this line
also contains values for the maximum
number of records (M), the number of
fields (NF), the number of family mem-
bers (PE), and the number of different
expense types (TY). If you need a
different value for any of them, this
is where to change it. If you make any
changes to the program you must resave
it or you'll lose all your changes.
Almost all screen instructions are
displayed near the bottom of the video
display.
After a few seconds while it is
initializing, MEDTAX will present you
with the menu which controls the pro-
gram. The menu options are:
1- Modify, 2- Print File,
3- Add Record, 4- Load File,
5- Save File, 6- Calculate,
7- Edit Names, 8- Instructions,
9- Exit.
It is advised that you first set
your family names with the option 7.
You should not use that function unless
your family members change or someone
else is using the program.
After you do that you have to
create a data file, by choosing option
3. You should create records whenever
you have an expense.
You'll be prompted to enter each
of the six fields for the new record,
although all except the type and family
member codes can be skipped by just
pressing <RETURN>. After you've en-
tered a new record, you'll be asked if
you want to Continue or Exit the op-
tion. When you've added all you want,
answer this prompt with Exit and you
will return to the main menu. From
there you can view the file so far or
modify your entries. Before you end
your session, REMEMBER TO SAVE THE DATA
FILE (option 5)!
When you get reimbursed from an
insurance claim, you should go back and
edit the record to show how much you
received. The program will ask if you
want it to calculate this amount based
on a copayment percentage set as PC=.85
in program line 40. This saves some
typing when you're updating the file.
Whenever you want to add, view, or
change your data, run the program and
select option 4 first to read in your
prior data from the disk. The Modify
option has an Index feature you can use
if you can't remember the number of the
record you want to modify. It will
display an abbreviated version of all
records on the screen so you can pick
out the record you want. This feature
can also be used when you want to sim-
ply view a range of records, since you
can Exit the modify option right after
viewing the index.
If you've added or changed any
data, resave the file when you're done
- the program automatically scratches
the old data file from the disk and
copies in your new one.
Before it executes the save, the
program will ask if you want to sort
the data first. If you've entered some
data out of date order, enter Y (yes)
at the prompt, and the program will
sort all your entries into date order.
If you have entered all your infor-
mation in date order (or you don't want
them in date order for some reason),
you can just hit RETURN and proceed
with the save.
HOW MUCH NOT REIMBURSED?
The program will show you this in
two ways- the screen or printer.
Before you see any information,
the program will ask you to select some
parameters. You can see all or a range
of records and you can select which
family member's expenses will be dis-
played- or see all members.
When you view the file on screen,
each record which meets the criteria
you selected will be displayed. The
line following each entry will show how
much, if any, of that record was NOT
reimbursed, as well as a running total
of non-reimbursed expenses. If you
chose to review a range of records, the
total figure will reflect only the
records which fell in the specified
range, not the whole file. The printed
report is different in this respect.
The print option is set up for a
Gemini 10X printer with a Card?-B
interface, but the control codes are
set out in lines 4010 through 4040 if
you need to change anything. The
printer file is opened in machine
language. Lines 4200-4207 take care of
the options. The secondary address is
set at 8 which means lower case, no
linefeeds.
When the program has finished
printing all the records, it will then
give you the "bottom line" by listing
out for you the total expenses NOT
reimbursed for each family member AND
for each category. In addition, the
report will show the total amounts for
all categories and all family members
(which should, of course, be equal).
The printed report will always show you
the total amounts for the entire file,
even if you've only asked to have the
records for one family member printed.
The remaining function available
from the main menu is the calculate
option. Here, MEDTAX will review all
your records and tell you how many
dollars you currently have outstanding
without reimbursement (i.e. waiting for
an insurance payment). MEDTAX searches
backwards in the data through the blank
reimbursements until it finds a record
with an entry for reimbursement, so
this is most usefull after you've sat-
isfied your deductible for the year.
That's all there is to it- make a
few custom changes for your family and
MEDTAX is ready to go.