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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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COO

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

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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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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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COO

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

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COO

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

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COO

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

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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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Director

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

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CIO

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

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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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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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Manager

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

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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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Manager

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

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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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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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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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Manager

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

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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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Director

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

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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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Physician

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

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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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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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CTO

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

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CTO

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

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Director

I'm not sure I would buy the RCM services again. I have issues with those. The same mistakes keep...

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Director

A good thing about the athenahealth services is that the firm doesn’t charge for everything. There...

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Director

We have one person who keeps us from pulling out of the arrangement with athenahealth, and that is...

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Director

There are good pieces about the revenue cycle, but the posting is a major issue. So are the...

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Director

athenahealth has come out with some pretty good changes with filing the claims and making edits and...

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Director

Even though athenahealth has a team for our specialty, I think they have a long way to go in getting...

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Director

Our client services manager does a good job of trying very hard to resolve things, but as we go up...

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Director

Our claims do get out on time. We don't have a really big issue with those not getting out the door....

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CEO/President

The quality of athenahealth’s staff is so mixed. athenahealth has people who are absolute rock...

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CEO/President

athenahealth does a good job. They are constantly out on the edge, trying to make improvements. They...

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CEO/President

We have never had any problems with athenahealth. At one point, we engaged an outside group to...

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CEO/President

The wind is shifting, and athenahealth is starting to charge for more things, such as APIs. The last...

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CEO/President

I like having our clinical modules in the same system as our revenue cycle management modules, and I...

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CEO/President

The denial rate is like a team sport. athenahealth takes the message from us, runs it up the hill,...

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CEO/President

There are some things that athenahealth could be better at. When we talk to athenahealth about an...

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CEO/President

I don't have any problems with athenahealth’s impact on cash collections. In addition, athenahealth...

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CEO/President

The biggest area that athenahealth could improve in would be managing which physicians are in...

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CEO/President

athenahealth bought a thing called Epocrates, and it is embedded into athenahealth's solution. One...

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Director

athenahealth does not exceed our expectations. They barely pull things across the line. athenahealth...

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Director

athenahealth’s biggest opportunity continues to be in their own internal quality management of...

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Director

We have a good relationship with our people. athenahealth tries to drive tangible outcomes....

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Director

athenahealth charges for every little thing plus tax.

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Director

athenahealth has worked on making some progress year over year. Previously, we had a lot of issues...

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Manager

athenahealth manages my claims behind the scenes. They work the claims, call the insurance...

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Manager

I meet with my athenahealth customer representative regularly and use all the KPIs and metrics that...

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Pillars Relationship
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Manager

athenahealth notifies patients of their balances via text, email, portal, and mail statements, and...

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Manager

It is very helpful to have the firm open the payments, scan all the information in, and attach it to...

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Manager

Having all the payments posted is a plus as long as they are posted correctly. athenahealth puts...

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Manager

athenahealth needs better training on payment posting. We are finding errors, like checks not being...

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Manager

Our athenahealth account manager is great, but we also have to go through the help desk first. Our...

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Manager

There are fees for everything with athenahealth. When it comes to the payments posted, a lot of...

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Manager

We have had a lot of issues with errors from the athenahealth team. We have to catch those errors...

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Director

athenahealth does consistently exceed expectations. I look at the big picture, but my team members...

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Director

athenahealth’s staff and consultants are excellent. We have the best CSM the firm has, or at least I...

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Director

athenahealth's payment model is very complicated. The bigger an organization is, the better the...

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