THERAPEUTIC ASSOCIATES SELECTS ATHENAHEALTH SERVICES FOR CLINICS IN OREGON, WASHINGTON, AND IDAHO
Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Organization to Leverage Centrally-Hosted athenaNet Platform and On-Demand Services Network
PORTLAND, Ore. and WATERTOWN, Mass. (February 19, 2008) – athenahealth, Inc. (Nasdaq:ATHN), a leading provider of internet-based business services for physician practices, today announced that Therapeutic Associates, Inc. (TAI) will deploy athenahealth’s on-demand practice management and billing service at its outpatient facilities in the Pacific Northwest as it looks to enhance operational workflow, financial performance and provider connectivity across its care delivery organization. TAI is one of the nation’s leading physical therapy and rehabilitation organizations with over 150 medical providers and more than 65 locations across the Western United States.
“One immediate benefit gained by using a network-based system like athenahealth’s is we feel it will enable our practices to focus more on care delivery and less on the business of healthcare,” said Todd Gifford, Director of Information Systems for TAI. “Leveraging the national athenaNet(r) platform will reduce demands on our staff, so resources can be focused on improving our operational efficiencies and medical billing outcomes rather than consumed on the labor-intensive and tedious processes of continually tracking changing regulations, reimbursement, quality indicators and reporting requirements.”
“Today, athenahealth’s centrally-hosted athenaNet platform has the nation’s largest payer reimbursement process rules database firing in real-time across our entire national client base,” said Rob Cosinuke, Chief Marketing Officer for athenahealth. “This allows our clients to experience a network effect in which shared knowledge drives better operational and financial outcomes. Beyond delivering better financial results, we also free our clients from day-to-day hassles, so they can focus on patient care.”
Gifford continued, “Achieving true connectivity is a primary goal of any large care delivery organization. With all athenahealth clients using the same practice management application, all of our practice sites across three states will be fully connected the moment we go live on athenaNet.”
As part of athenahealth’s practice management and billing service, athenaCollector, athenahealth has built in a proprietary knowledge-base of payer reimbursement process rules, called athenaRules(sm), which is designed to enforce physician office workflow requirements, which is updated continually with payer-specific coding and documentation information. Given the current demands on physician practices, athenaRules works in concert with athenahealth’s internet-based application and its integrated back-office service team to act as a national utility that proactively guides office staff away from making mistakes that impact the performance and profitability of their business.
About Therapeutic Associates, Inc.
Therapeutic Associates is a leading therapist owned and directed rehabilitation company, providing the finest physical therapy and occupational therapy services for more than fifty-five years in the Western United States. Therapeutic Associates’ therapists work daily with thousands of patients at 65 outpatient clinics and contract locations. Therapeutic Associates is also a management organization with unique and varied capabilities, striving to offer creative and innovative delivery systems to both patients and clients involved in the business of healthcare. For more information visit www.therapeuticassociates.com or call (800) 219-8835 .
Source: ATHENAHEALTH
