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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    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

    Zuora

    Score8.6 out of 10
    N/AZuora is one of the best-known subscription billing platforms. Zuora is an enterprise-level product and, as such, provides comprehensive metrics, tax automation, and support for multiple currencies. It also offers Salesforce and NetSuite integration out-of the-box. It often replaces cumbersome ERP (enterprise resource planning) systems that does not focus exclusively on billing.N/A
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    NextGen® Practice Management SolutionsZuora
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    NextGen® Practice Management SolutionsZuora
    Free Trial
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    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    User Ratings
    NextGen® Practice Management SolutionsZuora
    Likelihood to Recommend
    4.9
    (2 ratings)
    8.0
    (135 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    1.0
    (14 ratings)
    Usability
    -
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    7.0
    (18 ratings)
    Availability
    -
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    9.3
    (2 ratings)
    Performance
    -
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    9.7
    (3 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
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    1.0
    (13 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    -
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    9.3
    (2 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
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    7.0
    (2 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
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    7.4
    (9 ratings)
    Configurability
    -
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    6.6
    (3 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
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    6.0
    (3 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
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    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
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    10.0
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    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    NextGen® Practice Management SolutionsZuora
    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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    Zuora
    Zuora is great for smaller subscription businesses that have a limited number of simple or basic products. As more products are added to the catalog, the ability to report on specific product performance has become more challenging. Similarly, as our number of customers has grown significantly over the past few years, the extraction of data through export files is more of a challenge to capture all data points.
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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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    Zuora
    • The implementation of Zuora is very helpful. Their interactive training guides are one of the best I've used. It is very thorough and any salesperson can learn how to use it very quickly.
    • Their subscription management offers many ways to sell a subscription. These subscriptions can be evergreen (renewing every month) or termed subscriptions. The subscriptions can be amended to add/remove products very easily.
    • The ability to quickly pass through large amounts of usage data for our clients is allowing us to perform billing in a time-effective manner. Once usage data is loaded, a few clicks and all of the invoices for our client base can be generated. Invoices are clean and detailed which help us maintain a good customer experience even with our somewhat complex billing model. The reporting is extremely helpful in calculating the end of month commissions, recognizing and deferring revenue, and overall bookkeeping.
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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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    Zuora
    • User Interface - Zuora's UI is still a weak point, however, this is negated through the use of its API's. Zuora has done a lot of work in releasing new products to limit its UI experience and the addition of Orders allows for more functionality to reduce the UI issue.
    • Complex system - This is both a pro and a con, but in this instance, it is a con because we may not have taken the time to truly understand the implications of all the options that were available. the Flexibility is great however if you do not take the time to understand the product and what problem you are trying to solve, you can make life difficult for yourself later down the track. Take the time to map out your approach end to end and ensure your assumptions at the start are robust.
    • Reporting - reporting is weak as such we have moved away to our own reporting data warehouse.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    NextGen Healthcare
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    Zuora
    Our business is now, more than ever, focused on our core business rather than homegrown support tools for quoting, contracts, billing, invoicing, payments and the rest of the subscription economy. We evaluated other solutions and found this the best and most viable solution given the strong ties to Salesforce and it's integration. Zuora works, and it works well.
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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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    Zuora
    I had 20+ years of accounting experience before taking on the revenue role. I had several things to [learn] but was able to easily master the software in a matter of weeks. Zuora is our preferred billing platform that we currently use - very efficient and much more automated than our other platform/process.
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    Reliability and Availability
    NextGen Healthcare
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    Zuora
    There have only been a few days/instances in the past 2.5 years of using zuora that I, personally have had issues or been notified of issues relating to Zuora.
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    Performance
    NextGen Healthcare
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    Zuora
    Zuora does a superb job for all the tasks I use it for. Billing - it is trustworthy and accurate. Customer data- it holds it and keeps past records for even cancelled accounts, and subscription builds - it has the ability to make very difficult subscriptions seem easy.
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    Support Rating
    NextGen Healthcare
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    Zuora
    A support request is emailed to their support team, then an automated response is sent to you in a couple hours saying "Hey, someone will take a look at your support request soon". Then somewhere around 12-18 hours later, an actual support member responds with "Have you checked out our tutorials? Here's one that sounds like it might help you". I don't want a tutorial given to me that I've already read through that only exists because of the terrible user design of Zuora's user interface
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    In-Person Training
    NextGen Healthcare
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    Zuora
    The onsite was so helpful and worth the hours spent. All three people that came to represent Zuora had a lot to offer.
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    Online Training
    NextGen Healthcare
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    Zuora
    It was reliable.
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    Implementation Rating
    NextGen Healthcare
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    Zuora
    I think Zuora did a great job. However, they could have provided more guidance on how to deal with out Payment Gateway and Processor provider, as well as guidance around providing a Mobile Responsive experience for sites using the Zuora HPM.
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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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    Zuora
    Zuora provides way more functionality than Recurly or SaaSOptics as a billing engine. However, it is not a general ledger system like NetSuite ERP, it is still designed to be primarily a billing function that feeds into a general ledger via automated general entries. It has simplified our invoice management and automated billing while connecting with Salesforce for high-powered reporting and cross-departmental collaboration. The automation of revenue recognition has the potential to significantly reduce the time spent on accounting close by a few days.
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    Scalability
    NextGen Healthcare
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    Zuora
    The product is capable of a lot, small companies and large companies can utilize it with ease
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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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    Zuora
    • Poor support has slowed down our implementation of features and resolution of issues
    • Lack of flexibility has led to some complex and unwieldy workaround solutions
    • No useful built in AR reporting so we had to come up with our own solution
    • Challenges with finance due to unreliability of Salesforce sync
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