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    NextGen® Practice Management Solutions

    Score7.2 out of 10
    N/ANextGen Healthcare provides practice management solutions that support a patient-centric revenue cycle, enabling practices of all sizes to succeed in today's complex healthcare climate. According to the vendor, real-time clinical and administrative workflows help reduce physician burnout and achieve value-based reimbursement goals. The product is available on any device or platform, and helps automate patient registration, appointment scheduling, medical billing, claims processing, and…N/A

    Square Appointments

    Score10 out of 10
    N/ASquare headquartered in San Francisco, California offers Square Appointments, appointment scheduling software. The software is based on technology acquired with BookFresh in February 2014.

    $29

    per month per location

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    NextGen® Practice Management SolutionsSquare Appointments
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    $29
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    Premium
    $69
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    Free Trial
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    Free/Freemium Version
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    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    NextGen Healthcare
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    User Ratings
    NextGen® Practice Management SolutionsSquare Appointments
    Likelihood to Recommend
    4.9
    (2 ratings)
    9.1
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    Support Rating
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    10.0
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    User Testimonials
    NextGen® Practice Management SolutionsSquare Appointments
    Likelihood to Recommend
    NextGen Healthcare
    To start, Nextgen PM is NOT well-suited for companies who are looking for a could-based product—you will be required to house this software on your own server (this will force that company to maintain their own infrastructure). The solution is great for a company looking for a PM/EHR combo that communicates well with each other. The two modules are owned by the same company and does not require a costly API/bridge to be built between the two programs.
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    Block, Inc (Square)
    Great for booking and managing appointments. This software is very user-friendly due to its simplicity. The interface is intuitive and easy to use for all ages. The only time this software may not be appropriate might be with someone who is managing their calendar manually and not using a software solution at all.
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    Pros
    NextGen Healthcare
    • 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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    Block, Inc (Square)
    • Square had good interoperability with Google Calendar, so all of our calendars were in sync.
    • Square Appointments we easy to use for clients, and with a few Luddite exceptions, worked flawlessly.
    • Square Appointments made it easy to schedule appointments without having multiple email messages or play phone tag with anyone.
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    Cons
    NextGen Healthcare
    • More robust online scheduling solution
    • Integrated solution for online payments
    • More Robust AI solution for AI charting for providers
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    Block, Inc (Square)
    • Additional functionality: real-time availability calendar to customers
    • Not redirect away from our site to Square
    • Additional functionality: Ability for customers to add up sales when checking out
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    Usability
    NextGen Healthcare
    Overall, a very easy and robust system to use for small practices. It enables us to keep billing in house and connectivity with various databases keep the providers "in the know" about what's going on with their patients. Some solutions - such as the patient portal and online scheduling are cumbersome and we have difficulty getting patients to use them.
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    Block, Inc (Square)
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    Support Rating
    NextGen Healthcare
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    Block, Inc (Square)
    • Square Appointment is excellent at support! I have had several calls with them, and not one time have they dropped the ball, leaving me frustrated without a solution — not one time.
    • The community forum in Square Appointment can answer most of the questions, but if I have had real issues, I am always able to talk to a person. That is very valuable to me as a customer.
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    Alternatives Considered
    NextGen Healthcare
    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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    Block, Inc (Square)
    Though office can offer a lot of appointment base tasks. Square appointments seem to help keep track, with a more direct approach. It helps to declutter integrations and information, that can often get missed and feel to convoluted. It's approach is more specific in handling appointment needs and scheduling. We would recommend it.
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    Return on Investment
    NextGen Healthcare
    • 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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    Block, Inc (Square)
    • Ease of scheduling brings in more appointments
    • Must have a card on system to schedule and prepay for an appointment
    • Offers multiple types of appointments
    • Cancellation fees
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