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Director

For the most part, athenahealth follows through with their stuff. The biggest challenge for any firm...

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Pillars Relationship, Operations
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Director

athenahealth is working on some things that would help in terms of contract stuff and making sure...

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Pillars Operations
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Director

Everyone I work with at athenahealth is fantastic. Even when the customer service people don't know...

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Pillars Relationship
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Director

athenahealth does quite a bit of front-end claims scrubbing and denial work that helps us prevent...

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Director

I've been through lots of representatives with athenahealth, and my current one is the best one in...

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Pillars Relationship
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Director

athenahealth does a great job with cash collections. Our turnaround time is quick. They do a lot of...

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Director

Workers' compensation is a big challenge for us. Our A/R is the worst with workers' compensation,...

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Pillars Relationship, Value
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CEO/President

athenahealth does the enhanced claim resolution service; they take pretty much every claim and work...

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Pillars Relationship, Services
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CEO/President

athenahealth does a great job with denials. About 97% of my claims are paid on the first pass. Very...

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Pillars Services, Value
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CEO/President

Patients love how easy the patient portal is for athenahealth. It is very robust. They can do so...

Comment Tone Positive
Pillars Services
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CEO/President

I love the staff at athenahealth. The firm has a talent for finding people who are happy, nice,...

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Pillars Relationship
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CEO/President

I’m very satisfied with the cash collections from athenahealth. Perfection doesn’t exist, but...

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Pillars Services, Value
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COO

All our patients get is a bill, but we don't have athenahealth reach out to patients directly. We...

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Pillars Relationship, Services
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COO

athenahealth does very well strategically, and their overall account management is amazing.

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Pillars Relationship
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COO

We're spending a significant amount of money on athenahealth's service. We negotiated our rate with...

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Pillars Value
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COO

athenahealth has a good model, and it has been working. We have been getting paid. We bill something...

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COO

What athenahealth is doing is coding, but if there is a modifier issue, they come to us and ask...

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Pillars Relationship
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COO

With athenahealth, we are supposed to have one biller and one coder, and I think that is still not...

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Pillars Relationship
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COO

With athenahealth, we can set a lot of stuff up automatically. The claims have been going out so...

Comment Tone Positive
Pillars Loyalty, Relationship, Operations
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COO

With athenahealth, things have been seamless. athenahealth uses people in India. I guess we cannot...

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Pillars Relationship
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Director

athenahealth does well on cash collections, and it is because of the product usage. There are always...

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Director

athenahealth could improve their customization to the client level on some things, like A/R days,...

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Pillars Services
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Director

I'm very satisfied with our account management from athenahealth. athenahealth is extremely...

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Pillars Relationship
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CIO

The athenahealth consultants who understand our needs and bridge the gap are knowledgeable. But our...

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Pillars Relationship
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CIO

athenahealth needs a lot of help in figuring out how to work the claims. They are constantly kicking...

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Pillars Relationship
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Manager

My staff members constantly complain about denials, authorizations, and support with the firm's RCM...

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Pillars Relationship, Operations
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VP/Other Executive

Sometimes there will be situations when patients make mistakes with where they send their payments...

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Pillars Operations
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VP/Other Executive

With athenahealth’s RCM services, there are some things I have to scrub or that I will adjust the...

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Pillars Operations
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Manager

There are still some areas that athenahealth could improve with their RCM services. The firm's staff...

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Pillars Relationship, Operations
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Manager

We continue to use athenahealth's RCM services because they have a lot of data. If we were to switch...

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Pillars Loyalty, Operations
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Manager

When I meet with our athenahealth customer service person, we go through our reports, and we exceed...

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Pillars Relationship, Operations
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Manager

The biggest gap athenahealth could fill is helping manage refunds that need to be sent to the...

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Pillars Relationship, Operations
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Manager

athenahealth’s initial customer service for those who know nothing is fabulous. Their online...

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CEO/President

For the administrator of the practice, it is very good to have all the different kinds of reports...

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Pillars Operations
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CEO/President

All we do is create a charge and send it. athenahealth does the rest. The only things that come back...

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Pillars Operations
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CEO/President

I would rate athenahealth’s impact on the denials rate slightly below the top because there are...

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CEO/President

RCM is the most important thing. So athenahealth has made our job much easier from a practitioner’s...

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Pillars Value
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Manager

athenahealth's services really do it all for our practice. The rules engine that scrubs outgoing...

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Pillars Operations
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Director

athenahealth's staff members are better now. We have a customer service manager assigned to us who...

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Pillars Relationship, Operations
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Director

athenahealth consistently exceeds expectations, but when we first went live with their RCM services,...

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Pillars Relationship, Operations
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Director

Initially, we had a lot of billing issues with athenahealth. We are working through them, but that...

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Pillars Services, Value
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Physician

athenahealth doesn’t proactively engage. We are having billing issues related to some of our...

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Pillars Relationship, Services
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Physician

To exceed my expectations, I would need to feel like a small practice is as valuable to athenahealth...

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Physician

Our representative talks a big game, but they don’t deliver. There is no action or follow-through....

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Pillars Relationship
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Physician

The RCM services are doing the job, just not well or proactively to help us be better. When we ask...

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Pillars Relationship
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CTO

The revenue cycle is where athenahealth shines the most. They are very helpful in how they work...

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Pillars Relationship, Services, Value
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CTO

athenahealth’s sales team is very difficult to deal with, and their pricing practices are a little...

Comment Tone Neutral
Pillars Operations
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