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The ISMA partners with athenahealth, Inc. to secure member discount
An agreement signed Nov. 6 by the ISMA can help you overcome operational challenges and boost practice performance with a solution that is accurate, efficient and cost-effective.
Teaming with athenahealth, Inc., a leading physician billing, practice management and electronic medical record vendor, the ISMA now can help members access state-of-the-art billing services. athenahealth also allows access to the country’s largest database of payer rules.
Can you imagine never again wondering where a claim is? It can happen with athenahealth’s unique combination of Web-based practice management software, payer knowledge and comprehensive business services – from eligibility verification to claims submission, to insurance collection.
“Through the ISMA agreement, you can escape many of the challenges and headaches of managing your practice. Plus, you may be eligible to enjoy a 6 percent discount off the monthly athenaCollector
fee when all physicians in your practice are members in good standing of the ISMA,” said ISMA President Jon Marhenke.
“I invite you to learn more about athenahealth, examine their services, do the research. Then, I feel certain that you – like the ISMA leaders – will be impressed and convinced of the company’s ability
to provide solutions to improve the business side of medicine for Indiana physicians. You’ll see why more and more state medical societies, now a dozen in all, have endorsed athenahealth and recommend the company as a solution in today’s practice environment.”
Some background on athenahealth
A decade ago, former practice managers, facing the same business problems you’re confronting today, founded athenahealth. They put their understanding of the health care system’s complexities into developing business practices that give medical offices greater control, increased profits and substantially more time to spend with patients.
athenahealth will help you catch billing errors before they become problems. The company has the largest real-time database of payer rules in the country with the ability to spot claims with incorrect codes, incomplete information and other inaccuracies. Claims are scrubbed and sent out clean, driving denials down.
With athenahealth, you can track and access information on any claim — from starting point to payment date. The vendor’s experts write new athenahealth rules specifically for each practice, enhancing the ability to identify non-compliant payer behavior, like violations of prompt payment statutes.
With a minimal investment and using a combination of software and services, athenahealth can produce immediate and measurable results, allowing you to:
- Improve collections per physician
- Reduce days in accounts receivable
- Increase staff productivity
- Decrease rate of lost and denied claims
- Gain complete visibility into your practice to improve profitability
Want to know more?
Visit www.athenahealth.com/ISMA to learn more about athenahealth’s services, benefits and leadership. Be sure to read the case studies (see the listing on the left side of the screen) to learn what current physician clients have to say about their experience using athenahealth services. You may also call Ty Diehl at (614) 718-9538 for more details.
Turning the tables
PayerView, the first-ever ranking of payers, made available by athenahealth, serves to turn the tables on payers who now regularly rank and rate physician performance. PayerView is drawn from hard data in athenahealth’s system and the vendor’s experience with payers and thousands of doctors who use its services.
“We look to help physicians across the country deal with the daily challenges of running their
practices,” said Todd Park, co-founder of athenahealth. “This is why we launched PayerView – to
bring transparency to healthcare and create an industry-wide dialogue on behalf of medical providers.”
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