“athenahealth® has allowed Texas Medical and Surgical Associates to concentrate on what matters most to our physicians and staff: patient care, work/life balance, and revenue realization.”
Angela Hill, Office Manager
Texas Medical and Surgical Associates
Letter from Jonathan
One of the things we’re most proud of is our practice management system’s unique, built-in flexibility. This allows clients to easily incorporate and customize emerging trends like electronic medical records (EMR), pay-for-performance (P4P) and consumer-directed health care (CDHC) into their practice workflow. This month, read about how we constantly improve athenaClinicalsSM to offer the most cutting-edge, effective and easy-to-use package available. Also in this issue, find out if you’re spending too much time putting out fires because you don’t have the right data on hand. Learn about one practice’s financial turnaround with athenahealth and its new workflow transparency. We also catch up with Chris Barnes, this month’s featured athenista, as he keeps things cruising (from cars to athenaNet®). Dive in!
athenaClinicalsSM: How We Constantly Enhance Our Services
We’re always thinking about our next product and service enhancement. athenaClinicals is a good example of how we constantly improve our software and services to offer the most cutting-edge, effective and easy-to-use package available. Get the latest update here.
Are You Spending Your Professional Time on the Right Things?
How would you describe your perfect work day? Probably not “A bunch of random emergencies take all my time and I don’t accomplish anything I set out to.” Are you ready to take charge of your time?
Client Success Story: Workflow Transparency & A New Pre-Payment Program
When Melodie Eaton became the new billing manager of Professionals for Women’s Health, she already had an acute understanding of the practice’s financial successes and challenges. Find out how she leveraged athenahealth® services to create a new future for this practice.
Ann & Natalie’s Compliance Corner
This month, we report on the Health Information Technology Act of 2007, a bill intended to increase quality and lower costs of health care. Will this help your practice take advantage of electronic medical records and other health information technology? More here.
athenista Spotlight: Meet Chris Barnes
He likes to keep things running smoothly – from cars to athenaNet. In addition to helping maintain athenaNet, he works on special initiatives such as the new and daunting “Enrollment Matrix.” Meet Chris Barnes, athenahealth’s Process Innovation Associate in Claim Operations.
Performance Stats
Days in Accounts Receivable (DAR) dropped 1.3% between May 2006 and May 2007. While DAR for Blue and Medicare B remained about the same, our biggest improvement came in our most challenging payer segment (Medicaid).
Best wishes,
Johnathan Bush
