How Practices Win With Live Benchmarking
Wouldn’t it be great if you could quickly see how your practice performed on key benchmarks? What if you could compare your practice to others? And if your practice had the best scores at the end of the quarter, wouldn’t it be nice to get a prize?
Live Benchmarking on athenaNet® provides clients with a quick pulse check of their practice compared to others in their region and specialty on these key metrics:
- Average length of time (in days) between the date of service and the date the charge is entered
- Average number of days it takes to resolve a practice responsibility front-end rejection or back-end denial
- Percentage of open self-pay balances that are older than 90 days
At the end of each quarter, athenahealth looks at an aggregate score of these metrics to determine the top three practices in each region and specialty. All quarterly winners are eligible to win a grand prize at the User Conference in October.
Here are the winners by region and specialty from the second quarter of 2007 (April – July). Congratulations to all!
Northeast
| Rank in Contest | Primary Care | Medical Specialties | Surgical Specialties |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Personal Physicians Healthcare, PC | Partners in Women’s Care | RGH Opthamology Associates |
| 2 | Peter Masucci, M.D. | Brigham Faulkner | North Shore Vascular, PC |
| 3 | PBS - Collector (RHA) | Janice Washburn, MD | Kirk Johnson, MD, PC and Andrea Resciniti, MD (tie) |
South
| Rank in Contest | Primary Care | Medical Specialties | Surgical Specialties |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Centrahealth – Altavista Medical Center | St. Mary's OB/GYN | Clinical Urology, Inc |
| 2 | Moore Family Care PA | Brannon and Rogers | Virginia Eye Center |
| 3 | Bon Secours – Hampton Roads – Maryview Foundation Health Care Center (tie) | Mid Atlantic Women's Care (OGAH) and Mid Atlantic Women’s Care (WCW) (tie) | Verges & Steele |
West
| Rank in Contest | Primary Care | Medical Specialties | Surgical Specialties |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Internal Medicine Associates | Judy C. Dean, MD | Texas Medical and Surgical Associates |
| 2 | Pediatric Partners | FemPartners – Patricia A. Frey, MD | Mt Scott ENT |
| 3 | Windsor Primary Care | Schneider & Maurer Foot and Ankle | Chico Orthopaedic |
Midwest
| Rank in Contest | Primary Care | Medical Specialties | Surgical Specialties |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Healthworks MSO (PCAC) | Barry J. Fish, MD | David Shepherd, MD |
| 2 | Diamond Family Medical Clinic | Luis J. Morales, MD | UMA, Inc. – Athens (ENT/FP) |
| 3 | Kathryn E. Boehm, MD, LLC | E. Andarsio, M.D | Patrick Kirk, MD. |
athenahealth is able to provide this kind of at-a-glance information because of the vast amount of data we collect and process every day on behalf of our clients. We make it easy to quickly evaluate practice performance and target areas for improvement. Clients simply check their athenaNet “dashboard” or homepage to view their overall rank in each category for a real-time and quarterly view. (Some clients admit to being “addicted” to checking their scores!)