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athenaCollector Commentary
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Eder Lagemann
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Manager

athenahealth does a really nice job with training. If I didn't have to do anything on my own to...

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Manager

When I call athenahealth's support people, I usually already have an idea of the direction they need...

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Manager

athenaCollector is user friendly, and the vendor is always making changes based on industry...

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Manager

One of the benefits of athenaCollector is that we can configure settings so that text messages and...

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COO

Everything is a little more expensive, but especially in the FQHC market. FQHCs are typically on a...

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COO

Regarding athenahealth's long-term plans, I'm excited about how they've redeveloped the platform...

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COO

We looked at other vendors a few years ago when athenahealth was struggling to figure out how to...

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COO

athenahealth's long-term strategy of thinking like a payer has been the biggest benefit from working...

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VP/Other Executive

When we contact athenahealth, we get somebody offshore on the first and second lines of support. The...

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VP/Other Executive

I would not choose athenaCollector again. The issue is the back end. What we do with the solution is...

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VP/Other Executive

The markets with smaller populations are vastly underserved in athenahealth's model. athenahealth's...

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Manager

athenahealth’s support team is usually pretty quick, but sometimes the responses they give are not...

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Manager

There are pieces of athenaCollector that don’t work quite how I would like them to. Those workflow...

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Director

athenahealth has continued developing athena Collector. They stalled out for a while, but now they...

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Director

From our revenue cycle team members' perspective, athenahealth is already developing some of their...

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Director

We use a third-party solution for electronic billing statements because athenaCollector’s...

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Director

athenahealth doesn't quickly meet requests for changes to athenaCollector. It is not that things are...

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Manager

athenaCollector's reporting is very robust, so for our revenue cycle management piece, we get a lot...

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Manager

athenahealth’s customer service is good. Anytime I call with a ticket, the agents work with me and...

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Manager

A lot of things with athenaCollector are self-taught, but in the last upgrade, the vendor held more...

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Manager

athenaCollector does our payment posting, and they don't always review the EOB and put things into...

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Manager

I like athenaCollector's efficiency, especially in payment posting and cash flow. The system helps...

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Manager

athenahealth has a lot of add-on services, but I don’t think the prices are unfair or too high....

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Manager

The specific and tangible benefits our organization has seen from using multiple athenahealth...

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Manager

athenahealth provides extensive written education with their upgrades, and the training overall is...

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Manager

We are looking at EHRs that fit our business goals and at what will be the most efficient for our...

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Manager

We always have issues with the vendor's support. That seems to be a big pain point for us at times...

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Manager

We seem to be doing well with athenaCollector. athenahealth has definitely made some improvements....

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Manager

The benefit of using multiple solutions from one vendor is that things are within the platform if...

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Director

athenahealth does regular upgrades, and with a recent upgrade, they didn’t do enough testing, and...

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Director

We have regular calls with our athenahealth representative, and we present all our gripes to them....

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Director

athenahealth has a very good onboarding process with good training, but I wish it were more...

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Director

athenahealth occasionally comes up with unexpected costs for different integrations that they have....

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Director

By using multiple solutions from athenahealth, our organization can be more consistent throughout...

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Director

athenaCollector integrates well with external sources.

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Director

We have access to everyone at athenahealth, from support staff to the president. If someone needs to...

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Director

athenaCollector works for both new and experienced staff members. It guides users by pointing out...

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Director

athenaCollector does payment posting poorly. I would focus on what other companies offer for payment...

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Director

athenaCollector rolled out a new page last year. I find it too busy and not organized in a way that...

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Director

athenaCollector’s training relies on modules. They give us the basics, but we figure out the tricks...

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Director

The functionality within athenaCollector is impressive. athenaCollector’s custom rules engine is...

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Director

athenahealth does good releases, and they provide information ahead of time. If we have questions,...

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Director

If the industry could pick up the payers' claim numbers, that would be very helpful. I spend weeks...

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Director

When we got athenaCollector, it seemed complete, but there were many gaps. Some things drop into...

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CEO/President

Unfortunately, athenaCollector is in our long-term plans. On a day-to-day basis, the software is...

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CEO/President

We have been working with virtual credit cards for years now, and the vendor was supposed to be able...

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CEO/President

athenahealth did really well with handling the Change Healthcare crisis because a lot of other...

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CEO/President

The implementation with athenahealth was hard. The vendor just doesn't have any support right now....

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CEO/President

athenahealth does well with integration. We have several comanagement agreements, and we have to do...

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CEO/President

In terms of whether I would recommend athenahealth, I would tell others the pros and cons. I would...

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CEO/President

One plus about athenahealth is that we are not getting nickel-and-dimed. athenaCollector is very...

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Manager

athenaCollector has a lot of AI things already embedded into it. We use the system's ambient AI...

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Manager

One thing athenahealth does really well is that when they make an update, they provide both images...

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Manager

The benefit to using one EHR vendor for everything is continuity. Trying to keep everything in...

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Manager

We would buy athenaCollector again. It works seamlessly with our clinical product. We can use our...

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Manager

We didn't have an option for self-check-in through athenaCollector, so we used one of their...

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Manager

The system helps with payment collection by posting remittance advice codes that come back. It even...

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Manager

athenahealth does a very good job of keeping us up-to-date on all of the new things that are coming...

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Manager

athenahealth needs to have more direct contact with us so that they aren't leaving support cases out...

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Manager

A specific and tangible benefit that our organization has realized by using multiple solutions has...

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Manager

athenahealth benefits us by being connected in Washington DC, building out the product for the...

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Manager

athenahealth is really good about solving things. They have a lot of people on their support team....

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Manager

I have used other applications where users have to click a hundred times to get to where they need...

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Director

The overall thing I would tell someone about my experience with athenahealth is that I am very...

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Director

There are a couple of areas where athenaCollector doesn’t meet our needs, but they are things that...

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Director

athenahealth has avoided charging for every little thing. They have done some things that were...

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Director

This was only an issue at the start, but athenahealth took over our payment posting. If an...

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Director

athenahealth’s support people are pretty good. When we have a problem, they quickly escalate the...

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Director

On the billing end, the benefit of using multiple solutions from athenahealth is the way information...

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Director

Our implementation of athenaCollector was amazing. We might have been lucky. athenahealth uses a lot...

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Director

Surprisingly, my experience with athenahealth has been mostly positive. If someone were coming from...

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Director

athenahealth's support is slow.

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