An easy to use, friendly, patient web portal is a key element in today's medical practice. Patient use of the NextGen Office patient portal leads to more engaged and happier patients, less work for your staff and results in faster documentation of the patient encounter - getting you out of the office on time with your charting done

A standard among today’s modern cloud based EHR’s is a patient friendly, truly useful Patient Portal.

2020 brings new challenges and changes for many EHR users. Many practices are looking to change from older, outdated client server based EHRs that they’ve had for many years.

Today’s health insurance plans include larger co-pays and higher deductibles making patients responsible for a larger portion of their overall health care costs and most importantly your revenue stream. Making sure that you collect these self-pay balances needs to be a key priority to increase cash flow. Using an online patient portal will enable your practice to get paid faster!

Have you been questioning what the best possible method for charting in an EHR is? In recent years, there have been so many exciting EHR developments but it’s hard to tell which one may be the most beneficial to your practice. Nowadays, doctors are charting from a desktop, their laptops and even on an iPad! What option fits your practice the best? There are so many questions to consider!

Have you ever worried that charting on an electronic device during a patient encounter would have a negative impact on your patient’s experience at your office?

Want to increase revenue growth by improving your front desk efficiency?

In today’s healthcare environment, practices need to do everything they can to optimize their revenue opportunities One way to immediately optimize your revenue is to use an EMR with the ability to complete real-time insurance eligibility verification.

Avoid Lost Revenue and Increase Patient Satisfaction with your EHR Real Time Eligibility Software

Successful claim submission and getting paid fairly and on time starts the minute the patient walks in the front door or calls the office. Today, medical practices need to be taking full advantage of simple, affordable software tools that let the front office quickly and accurately register the patient.

Women’s healthcare deals with a variety of both urgent and long-term treatments, and a powerful OB GYN EHR platform can assist every step of the way. Whether it’s finances, logistics, customer care, or basic medical practice management, an EHR will redefine an OB GYN from the ground up

Here's how:

If you're a new provider just starting your medical practice or an established provider the regulatory and fiscal challenges to success can seem overwhelming. However, it can be done and we'd like to share with you a case study of an Illinois neurologist who has not survived but thrived

Take the case of Illinois based neurologist, Dr. Michael Sergeant and his wife, Beth, who sought the best EHR for their solo practice and ventured into independence after 26 years of co-owning a private neurology practice.

For Beth Sergeant, who spent most of her adult life pursuing art — not a career in medical billing — building a small medical practice with her husband from the ground up proved to be no small task. She soon discovered that finding the best EMR for solo practice was key to surviving and thriving in a state where very few independent neurologists remained. “We’ve found ways to really make the system work for our practice. We could never have gotten by without it and compared to other systems, NextGen Office  has proved to be much better,” says Sergeant.

Beyond the economics and logistics of starting one’s own business, there’s also the fact to consider that being a solo practice means thinking about the office every day, no matter where you are. “We’re not always in the office and NextGen Office allows me to work from anywhere. We don’t have an answering service — we are the answering service — and having access to records 24 hours a day as well as the ability to fax, wherever we are, has been so helpful.”

“I would definitely recommend NextGen Office to other small practices,” Sergeant says. “From set-up, it was never lacking.  I look at people now still using paper, and I think, ‘How do you do it?'”

Read below for the full case study

The Medicare Advantage plan, sometimes called Medicare Part C or an MA Plan are offered by private companies that have been approved by Medicare. Today roughly 25% of all enrollees in Medicare are covered by an Advantage plan.

Billing under an MA Plan can be a lucrative and profitable part of your practice's income stream - but do you know how to optimize your billings to make sure you're receiving the highest level of reimbursement?

Due to the HITECH act and stimulus payments made to providers who adopted health care technology roughly 70% of all medical practices have an EHR. However many of those were implemented in 6 to 7 years ago and were based on older client server technology, requiring costly hardware and even more costly professional IT support.