“Every month, athenahealth adds something to the solution that is a great innovation, really making my day or my practice life easier.”
Norma Mahoney
Practice Operations Manager, Winchester Healthcare Enterprises
Letter from Jonathan
When Todd Park and I began our journey with athenahealth, our dream was to provide physicians and medical organizations the tools and the knowledge to run their practices’ efficiently and effectively; allowing them to focus more on patients and less on medical billing. After 11 years, we have built a network of over 12,000 active providers that all contribute – whether they know it or not – to the continually updated payer rules that make athenahealth’s Rules Engine a robust machine combating denied claims for all of our clients. It’s the power of the network! Take a read through this month’s issue of the athenaPulse Newsletter and read about two large hospital organizations that improved their financial performance with athenaCollectorSM by gaining more transparency into their daily workflow. Also, I’d like to personally invite you to learn more about the network effect by tuning into our upcoming webinar: Improve Practice Performance by Leveraging athenahealth’s Network. Click here to register.
It’s All About the Network
Many hospital-affiliated and -owned practices struggle with outdated, fragile billing systems and with the major headaches of installation and maintenance across multiple practice sites. It doesn’t have to be this way! Click here to learn how two large, complex medical groups partnered with athenahealth to increase transparency into their organizations and improve their bottom line.
Rule of the Month: Teamwork
Denied claims slow down payment processing and waste the most valuable resource in your office – TIME! The March Rule of the Month illustrates how athenahealth teamed up with national payer, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, to create a more efficient process to submit claims with missing information. Click here to read more.
Ann & Natalie’s Compliance Corner
This month, we discuss a proposed regulation implementing the Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Act of 2005 through the establishment of Patient Safety Organizations. The act fosters the establishment of Patient Safety Organizations (PSOs), which are private entities that would collect and analyze data related to patient safety incidents to identify ways to prevent medical errors. Interested? Click here to learn more.
athenista Spotlight: Fred Henle, athenahealth Senior Developer
Meet Fred Henle, athenahealth Senior Developer. Fred joined athenahealth in 2006 to develop Electronic Remittance Advice (ERA) and further enhance our Posting functionality. He enjoys challenging himself with difficult math problems as well as playing Ultimate (Frisbee), and the violin. Click here to read this month’s fascinating spotlight.
Best wishes,
Johnathan Bush