NextGen® Practice Management Solutions vs. Therabill by WebPT

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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For smaller clinics who see fewer numbers of patients or rarely deal with claim denials, Therabill by WebPT would be satisfactory and effective for use. However, because the workflows for handling claim denials and for entering batch payments can be so tedious, difficult, and time-consuming, I would not recommend the suite for businesses with greater quantities of daily claims or complex billing scenarios.

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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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• 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.

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• More robust online scheduling solution
• Integrated solution for online payments
• More Robust AI solution for AI charting for providers

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• Customer Services is hit or miss
• Payments sometimes applied incorrectly
• Lack of Guidance for set up

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

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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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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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WebPT helps with all record keeping, compliance and note taking while therabill helps with making billing easy to perform and track.

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• 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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