NextGen® Practice Management Solutions vs. Therabill by WebPT

It's better than paper charting but it is still tedious and not efficient.

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Therabill is great for small clinic practices because the functions save time, organize billing, and make tracking financials much easier. Reports are easily accessible and easy to read, saving time with tracking . I think that Therabill is suitable for large and small clinics, time saver! I can't really see a scenario where a clinic would not benefit from Therabill.

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• Ability to save favorite phrases and templates to make charting more efficient for providers.
• Ability to interface with Question Diagnostics for certain laboratory tests.
• Ability to send and receive tasks to other user(s) on the system as well as send future tasks and reminders to yourself.

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• Organizes workflow
• Reports to help analyze financials
• All in one for billing multiple insurances
• Customer Service

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• The software requires annoying/disruptive updates.
• The software is housed on our own server. We have found that cloud-based solutions are much more convenient.
• At times, the system is a bit "slow."
• The canned reporting/BI tool is not as malleable as many of the other solutions we have used and/or trialed.
• We were able to achieve cost-savings through some other systems.

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• While knowledgeable, support agents don't seem to speak English as a primary language, so communication can be difficult at times
• I feel billing secondary insurance is really tedious, having to submit it patient by patient
• Handling claim denials, corrected claims, and resubmissions is incredibly tedious and difficult, in my experience, requiring a great deal of time and moving across the site to handle one claim at a time

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We are actually looking at other options - unsure whether we will continue

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The UI is fairly user-friendly and finding what you need on the site isn't that difficult. Once set up, EDI and ERA receipt works smoothly and payment posting from ERAs is straightforward and simple for the most part. But handling claim denials, corrections, and resubmissions is incredibly difficult. It is not only difficult to find and sort them, but to send them out for reprocessing as well.

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Chat is great but often not working or very slow responses. Can't easily talk to a person about issues and emails are very slow to get answered

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We feel that Nextgen does not stack up very well against the cloud-based software on the market. Housing the underlying tables on your own hardware requires COSTLY man hours. We are in the business of providing health care services to patients, not database administration. Introducing cloud-based products has had a tremendously positive effect on our business.

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Our previous billing software was Tiger Misys and Payerpath by Allscripts. Both were very antiquated means of managing claims and payments. Therabill by WebPT at least is modern and functions far more simply and is more user-friendly. That said, we have since moved to Prompt EMR, which while the user interface is less intuitive, the functionality is far more streamlined and efficient for a clinic of our size.

Incentivized

• Nextgen did a good job of transitioning our practice away from paper health records.
• I believe that the Return on Investment would have been much higher had we gone straight to a cloud-based tool.
• By getting our feet wet with Nextgen, we have a pretty good understanding of Practice Management software. In other words, we could plug and play with most systems on the market.

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• Increased ease with financials year over year
• easy to track profits
• easy to track busy seasons

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