Kareo Medical Billing vs. Therabill by WebPT

In my experience, problems with them adding incorrect fees to pad their bills coupled with their unethical business practices such as locking you out from accessing your EMR at the drop of a hat prevent me from recommending Kareo to any practice. Reliability is paramount. Kareo's use of unethical business practices (locking you out from your EMR or disabling your EMR all together) can result in a physician being sanctioned by the medical board (inappropriate medical record keeping) or financially destroy a small practice leaving them with NO ACCESS to their ERAs/patient billing accounts etc leads me to NOT reccomend their products or doing business with them.

We have a single location practice and Therabill does most of what we need well. I believe it could easily be scaled to more than one location for others.

Incentivized

• Kareo stays up to date on insurance changes which allow for smooth transitions.
• Kareo asks for feedback and has a place to go and request changes or additions that would make our job easier.
• I love that you can submit a help ticket or call, if you prefer, with any questions or problems that you may have. They are always very prompt with their follow up.

• Great integration with WebPT
• Love the auto posting of patient payments when we apply ERAs - and the ability to not apply if there is a secondary.
• The Patient statements are pretty easy to send out. Love that we have options to print or email them.
• The zendesk site answers a LOT of questions and is a fantastic resource.

Incentivized

• I've spent hours on the phone discussing various issues with regards to data variance between two different source documents within the software. At one point, I could not reconcile the A/R balance on one of the dashboards to the A/R balance pulled from the Excel add-in. Unfortunately, their support teams were not able to help out with this.
• The Excel add-in falls short in a few key areas. Specifically, they do not provide a simple method of joining data fields from the "charges," "payments," and "transactions" tables. One is left to attempt to join the data sets via VLOOKUP or INDEX(MATCH).
• At times, we have had issues with the API providing information that would not tie out to figures reported elsewhere within the software. Unfortunately, their support teams were not able to help out with this.

Incentivized

• The reports are a bit hard to understand
• Support is slower and often does not seem to grasp what we need.
• I wish we could set claims aside when they needed work so they would not go out when we batch bill.
• I wish I could just deactivate a provider who goes on leave and stop paying for them instead of having to delete them and reenter later.

Incentivized

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

Incentivized

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

Incentivized

We are much happier with Kareo than Compulink. The software as a service makes it easy to manage claims from multiple locations when I cannot be on site. The reports and all other aspects I have mentioned as distinct to Kareo. We had a very hard time tracking things with Compulink.

Incentivized

Compulink was not a good thing at all. Therabill is much better. Kareo was better in some way, but worse in others. We moved to Therabill for lower cost and because it was bought by WebPT and we figured they would be putting all improvements toward that

Incentivized

• Kareo had an overall low return on investment.
• Despite the software being active at our company, we were forced to transition to a different solution within 6-months of implementation.
• The time spent attempting to reconcile the system to itself was rather wasteful.

Incentivized

• I don't like the pricing. We have many part time employees and I think we overpay.
• Claims flow pretty quickly through and help up get paid sooner.

Incentivized