PMED - Preço de Procedimento

Review by eFreeware

Pricing a medical procedure is rarely as simple as reading a number off a table. In Brazil's supplementary health system, the same procedure can be described in several code sets, and each one feeds a different calculation, with components such as CH, UCO, FILM, PORTE, anesthetic PORTE and auxiliaries all shifting the final figure. Getting that arithmetic wrong means rework for a clinic, a rejected claim for an insurer, or an invoice a patient disputes.

PMED, from OAZEZ Software & Tecnologia, is built for exactly that job. It is a paid Android app that consults the CBHPM, AMB and TUSS tables and runs the fee calculation for you, rather than leaving you to cross-reference printed tables by hand. The app's focus reflects its background: it is a reference and calculation tool for people who deal with procedure codes every day, not a general health app.

How the lookup and calculation work

The core of the app is a search box. Once you have the right entry, PMED calculates the fee automatically instead of asking you to apply the values yourself.

That calculation covers the components that make up a Brazilian medical fee: CH, UCO, FILM, PORTE, PORTE ANESTHETIC and AUXILIARIES. Rather than showing only a final total, the app displays the entire composition of the calculation, so you can see how each part contributed to the number. For anyone who has to justify a charge or check someone else's work, that breakdown is the difference between trusting a result and being able to defend it.

The developer describes the app as fast at returning results, and speed is a reasonable thing to want here. Price checks tend to happen mid-task, while a quote is being prepared or a bill is being assembled, so a lookup that takes several steps or forces you to switch to a spreadsheet slows the whole process down.

Three tables in one place

The app holds the CBHPM, AMB and TUSS tables together. That combination is the practical argument for it: these tables are used side by side in Brazilian billing and auditing work, and having them in one place saves the effort of maintaining separate references.

The tables are not identical in what they contain, and the developer is explicit about one difference. TUSS is an ANS edition that carries codes and descriptions but no prices, so a TUSS entry on its own does not tell you what a procedure is worth. PMED's search function is what turns that code into a figure, by calculating it against the parameters the app works with. That is a useful thing to understand before you start: TUSS tells you which procedure you are dealing with, and the calculation tells you what it pays.

The app also ships with an updated TUSS table for 2026. The 2026 table reflects recent changes rather than an older edition that has drifted out of date. For anyone whose work depends on matching what an insurer or a hospital system expects, that currency is the main reason to keep the app installed rather than working from a saved file.

The DEPARA converter and your own parameters

The feature I find most interesting is DEPARA, which the developer presents as a TUSS x CBHPM x AMB conversion. In practice, this addresses the recurring problem of a procedure identified under one table needing to be expressed under another. Instead of looking up the code three times and hoping the mappings line up, you work from one entry and let the app relate it to the others.

PMED also lets you configure your own values and parameters. Fee tables are not applied identically everywhere; contracts, negotiated rates and internal rules vary between institutions, and a calculator that only accepts one fixed set of values would be of limited use to anyone outside that arrangement. Being able to set your own parameters means the results can reflect the terms you actually work under.

Between the conversion feature and the configurable parameters, the app is clearly designed for professional use rather than casual curiosity. The developer lists clinics, hospitals, health insurance companies and medical billing among the intended users, and that list matches what the feature set is built to support.

What it costs and what it asks of you

PMED is a paid download at $4.99, and it carries no advertising. It also has in-app purchases, and one of them is the CBHPM 2026 table, which reflects the changes made in 2025 and 2026, for one dollar. That is worth planning for if the CBHPM table is central to your work, since the base price of the app and the cost of that table are separate.

The other thing to go in knowing is that this is a tool for a specific market. The tables, the calculation components and the code sets are all tied to Brazilian supplementary health, and the app assumes you already know what CH, UCO or PORTE mean and why you would need them. There is no general audience here; the vocabulary is the entry requirement.

It is also a reference app in the sense that its usefulness tracks the tables it carries. The developer's recent change note mentions a fix to how tables update on startup. If your work depends on current codes, that is the behavior you want from an app like this.

Built for billing desks and auditing teams

The people who will get the most from PMED are the ones who already spend part of their day with procedure codes. A clinic administrator checking whether a quoted price is right needs the composition of the calculation, not just the total. An auditor at a health insurance company comparing what was billed against what the table allows needs the tables and the conversion between them.

It is a narrower audience than the install count of over 10,000 might suggest, but that is a consequence of the subject matter rather than a flaw. The app has been on Google Play since August 2012, which is a long run for a niche professional tool.

If your work involves Brazilian medical procedure pricing, the combination of three tables, automatic calculation with a visible breakdown, a conversion feature and configurable parameters covers the tasks that come up repeatedly. If it does not, there is little here for you, and the app makes no attempt to pretend otherwise.

A practical pick for procedure pricing work

PMED is worth the $4.99 for anyone whose job involves looking up Brazilian medical procedure prices regularly.

Two costs sit alongside the download price. The CBHPM 2026 table is an optional one-dollar purchase inside the app. Neither is a surprise for the audience the developer is writing for, but both are part of the decision.

My recommendation is straightforward: if you prepare, check or audit medical billing in Brazil, this is a sensible app to have on your phone, and the 2026 TUSS update keeps it current for that work. If procedure codes are not part of your day, the app has nothing to offer you, and you should spend the money elsewhere.

What's new in version 17.7

Correção na atualização de tabelas na inicialização.