athenahealth Joins with the Arkansas Medical Society; Offers Clinical and Practice Management Services to Physicians.Arkansas Becomes Tenth State Medical Society to Endorse athenahealth's Services WATERTOWN, Mass. & LITTLE ROCK, Ark. -- athenahealth, Inc., the premier provider of web-based services, knowledge, and software for medical practices, and the Arkansas Medical Society (AMS AMS - Andrew Message System ), have aligned to offer athenahealth's award-winning, web-based revenue and clinical cycle management services to Arkansas physicians. Under the terms of the agreement, AMS will offer athenahealth's services to member physicians at preferred pricing. "To help ensure the financial health and success of our member physicians, we have established a process to evaluate and recommend tools that will help our members manage their practices more effectively," said Steven Magie, M.D., Chairman of the Arkansas Medical Society Board of Trustees board of trustees Politics The posse of thugs who oversee an institution's administration. See Board of directors. . "athenahealth is the first company we considered recommending because they are already successfully working with several state medical associations. We were particularly impressed im·press 1 tr.v. im·pressed, im·press·ing, im·press·es 1. To affect strongly, often favorably: with the results Ohio physicians are experiencing due to athenahealth's relationship with the Ohio State Medical Association (OSMA OSMA Office of Safety and Mission Assurance (NASA) OSMA Ohio State Medical Association OSMA Oklahoma State Medical Association OSMA Ontario Sheep Marketing Agency OSMA One Square Meter Array ), as well as their joint effort to pass prompt pay laws in Ohio. We are hoping to build on that success and work with athenahealth to monitor compliance here in Arkansas." As a web-based services company, athenahealth offers many benefits that are not commonly found with other practice management and clinical software vendors, including: * Proprietary payer knowledge, including the largest real-time database of payer rules and regulations in the industry (updated constantly and shared by all clients) * Ability to prevent denials by writing rules specifically designed for each practice * Ability to identify noncompliant payer behavior, including violation of prompt payment statutes * Ability to compare financial performance of individual areas within a practice and to benchmark performance against other practices * athenaClinicals(SM) - athenahealth's new clinical offering that applies the same powerful combination of intuitive software Application programs that have a friendly interface and work like users would expect. Menu functions are available in a logical order that one finds natural. The most common functions are presented in one menu or are located at the top of the menu list rather than being buried in rigid , billing intelligence, and results-oriented services found in athenahealth's practice management services to a next generation EMR (ElectroMagnetic Radiation) The emanation of energy from everything in the universe. Although the EMR from electrical and electronic devices is typically measured for practical, every-day situations, every object, including humans, emanates energy. service. In addition to helping individual practices, athenahealth will share state-specific claim data with the AMS that will help the medical society to substantiate To establish the existence or truth of a particular fact through the use of competent evidence; to verify. For example, an Eyewitness might be called by a party to a lawsuit to substantiate that party's testimony. and resolve problems with payers on behalf of its members. "athenahealth's unique approach combines hard working people, deep experience and the largest knowledgebase of payer rules in the world to get practices paid for the services they provide," said Derek Hedges, director of channel management at athenahealth. "We are pleased to have found an organization like the AMS that shares our vision that practices should be able to get meaningful results quickly and with minimal transition-time and effort." About the Arkansas Medical Society The Arkansas Medical Society (AMS) is the nonprofit organization Nonprofit Organization An association that is given tax-free status. Donations to a non-profit organization are often tax deductible as well. Notes: Examples of non-profit organizations are charities, hospitals and schools. representing physicians in the state of Arkansas. AMS is a constituent CONSTITUENT. He who gives authority to another to act for him. 1 Bouv. Inst. n. 893. 2. The constituent is bound with whatever his attorney does by virtue of his authority. of the American Medical Association American Medical Association (AMA), professional physicians' organization (founded 1847). Its goals are to protect the interests of American physicians, advance public health, and support the growth of medical science. and is a leader in developing and promoting legislation beneficial to the health care community. AMS membership consists of more than 4,300 doctors in all fields of medicine. AMS is online at www.ArkMed.org. About athenahealth, Inc. athenahealth provides the only physician revenue and clinical cycle management offering that integrates web-based practice management and EMR software, continually updated payer knowledge, and back office processing into a single service. The results are faster payment at lower cost, improved patient care, higher revenue retention and less hassle Hassle () is a location in Närke, Sweden, where a Celtic treasure was found in 1936. It comprises a large bronze cauldron which contained two Bronze Age swords of the Hallstatt type, a pommel of bronze, two bronze buckets with for the more than 8,000 providers using athenahealth nationwide. The company collects nearly $2.2 billion on behalf of its clients annually. athenahealth is dedicated to helping providers make optimum use of their time, ultimately improving the quality of service delivered and the financial reward for it. For more information about athenahealth, visit our Web site at www.athenahealth.com or call 1-888-652-8200 |
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