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March 30, 2021
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Print to Fillable form or Overlay PDF's?

  • March 30, 2021
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Hello,

 

I am looking for assistance. I would like to find a way to print to a fillable form or overlay PDF's

 

I do medical billing and am looking for a way to remotely without a printer, print a patients claim to a CMS 1500 form. The billing program I use will print the claim without the CMS background (it assumes I am printing to a blank CMS Form) However being remote due to HIPAA stuff I cannot print any paper from home. Ideally i would either like to overlay my text to a picture of a CMS form, OR print the text somehow to a fillable CMS form but i am not sure how to do either! Any ideas?

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Correct answer luser47

See https://community.adobe.com/t5/acrobat-discussions/apply-a-form-fillable-quot-layer-quot-on-pdf-files/m-p/11902659 for a solution to this.  Add the CMS 1500 form as a background to a page with your form fields.

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janicej93931460
Participant
November 1, 2022

Did you ever figure this out?  I have the same issue

Participating Frequently
November 1, 2022

Yes. Start with the form you have that you want to overlay form fields to. From a new blank document, add your form as a background. Then add in all of the form fields you want. Remove the background. Now you have a document that is just the form fields. Save that document.

 

Now each time you want to fill out that form, open the form field document, then open your form as a background. Fill in the form fields and then print to PDF to get a filled in PDF.

luser47Correct answer
Participating Frequently
August 27, 2022

See https://community.adobe.com/t5/acrobat-discussions/apply-a-form-fillable-quot-layer-quot-on-pdf-files/m-p/11902659 for a solution to this.  Add the CMS 1500 form as a background to a page with your form fields.

Document Geek
Community Expert
Community Expert
March 30, 2021

Go to the layers pane:

Options button > Import as layer > Appear in front of page.

Participating Frequently
August 27, 2022

This doesn't appear to work in Acrobat DC.

I created two documents.  One is the scan of the paper form and the other document is a blank page with form fields and checkboxes.  I open the scanned form in Acrobat DC.  Then, on the left side, I open the Navigation Pane, select the Layers button, which opens the Layers panel, then I select the Layers menu and from there select "Import as Layer".  I then specify the file to open (the blank page with form fields), and under "Create new layer", I give the new layer the name "form overlay".  I noted that "Order" in the bottom left says "Appear in front of page".

 

Once that is done, the form fields are there and visible, but are not editable.  For example, I see that check boxes are added, but I cannot check/uncheck them.  If I start over and put in some initial text into the form fields of the form field document and use that as a layer, I can see that initial text and it is in the right place, but it cannot be edited.

try67
Community Expert
Community Expert
August 27, 2022

There are no form fields in the files you shared.