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athenahealth Offering Provides Complete Solution for Improving
Medical Group Performance
athenahealth, Inc., the premier provider of web-based
services, knowledge, and software for medical practices,
and Lone Star MSO, a physician-owned practice management
company based in Dallas, Texas, have entered into a strategic
alliance to offer physicians in Texas and throughout the
Southwest athenahealth’s billing and practice management
services to help manage their practices and improve collections.
Under the terms of the agreement, Lone Star MSO will be
a value-added reseller of athenahealth’s award-winning
revenue-cycle management service, athenaNet®, which
will be offered to Lone Star MSO customers at preferred
pricing. In addition, Lone Star will offer these medical
groups other outsourced practice management services –
including managed care contracting, information technology,
human resource management, ancillary services development,
financial services and reporting, and analyses of staffing,
workflow, and scheduling – effectively removing the
hassle of practice management.
"athenahealth had already dramatically improved our
billing and collections at Texas Medical and Surgical, and
we wanted to offer the same advantages to other medical
groups,” said Trey Schroeder, vice president of Lone
Star MSO and chief operating officer of Texas Medical and
Surgical Associates, one of the state’s oldest medical
groups and long-term customer of athenahealth. “Like
Lone Star, athenahealth is paid for its service-oriented
solutions based on collections, so we have a common philosophy
of sharing risks and rewards with our customers. Through
our combined services, we are taking all the administrative
headaches out of the equation so physicians can just focus
on caring for their patients.”
For the past ten years, Texas Medical & Surgical has
invested the human and financial capital necessary for Lone
Star’s infrastructure. Due to its incredible success
and performance using athenahealth, Texas Medical and Surgical
decided to launch Lone Star MSO in 2006 to offer a comprehensive
set of support services. Lone Star MSO fee schedules are
customized for every practice, depending on services required
and practice resources. With the addition of athenahealth’s
web-based revenue cycle management service, medical groups
using Lone Star can incorporate billing and accounts receivable
management into their overall support services, helping
to dramatically improve the overall performance of their
practices. “Lone Star will enhance the value and economic
performance of client practices,” said Presley M.
Mock, MD, president of Lone Star MSO. “Through sophisticated
operations management and optimal resource utilization,
physicians and practice leadership will be enabled to focus
their time, talent, and energy on clinical performance and
outcomes as well as practice growth strategies.”
Lone Star and athenahealth are both results-oriented companies
who are tackling an expanding but complex market together,”
said Derek Hedges, director of channel relations at athenahealth.
“By combining our billing and collections expertise
with Lone Star’s other practice management capabilities,
medical groups in Texas will now experience tremendous improvement
to all aspects of their business and get back to focusing
on patient care.”
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