athenahealth Billing Services
Independent billing staff for practices on athenaOne. Not a replacement for athenahealth's own service — the work its published service description assigns to you.
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What are athenahealth billing services?
From an independent billing company, athenahealth billing services means staffing the athenaCollector work that athenahealth's own athenaOne Base Service Description assigns to the client rather than to athenahealth: clearing the HOLD and MGRHOLD claim buckets, reviewing and correcting the denials athenahealth flags for client review, re-opening zero-paid charge lines below the $200 threshold athenahealth re-opens above, working the Zero-Pay Review and Payment Mismatch Tracking Wizard reports, calling payers on underpayment errors, and continuing to pursue claims athenahealth has closed as Fully-Worked. It runs inside your existing athenaOne subscription under named user accounts your administrator issues, and it does not change or replace your athenahealth contract or fee.
- athenaOne Base is athenaClinicals + athenaCollector + athenaCommunicator; athenahealth is renaming athenaNet to athenaOne
- athenahealth does work A/R and denials — its service description also lists what it excludes for the client
- Our scope is that client column: flagged denials, sub-$200 zero-pays, underpayment calls, Fully-Worked claims
- Independent of athenahealth: your subscription, your fee, our labour — no reseller or partner relationship
athenahealth calls the split between what it does and what your staff does co-sourcing, and it publishes that split. The athenaOne Base Service Description (Summer 2026 release, published 22 July 2026, read 17 September 2026) sets out, service line by service line, the athenaCollector work athenahealth performs and the work it marks Excluded, to be provided by Client. Be clear about the first column: athenahealth does run an A/R follow-up service, does research denials and submit appeals, and does re-open zero-paid charges over $200 — any billing company telling you otherwise has not read the document. The client column is equally real, and it is the quieter place a practice loses money: reviewing the claims athenahealth flags because registration, coding or charge entry supplied the information the payer rejected; re-opening charge lines under $200 adjusted off at zero; working the Zero-Pay Review and Payment Mismatch Tracking Wizard reports; calling payers about underpayment errors; chasing corporate, workers' compensation and motor-vehicle balances; and continuing to pursue claims athenahealth has closed as Fully-Worked Receivables. MedPrecision is an independent medical billing company — not affiliated with, endorsed by, or reselling athenahealth — and we staff that client column inside your own athenaOne subscription. Confirm the current division against your own agreement and the latest published service description before scoping: athenahealth states each edition supersedes the last.
Who This Service Is For
What Is Breaking Right Now
Claims sitting in athenaOne hold buckets until they are force-dropped near the filing limit
Denials athenahealth flagged for client review that no one reviewed or corrected
Zero-paid charge lines under $200 adjusted off and never re-opened
Fully-Worked claims treated as final when the practice is still free to pursue them
What We Handle
Charge entry and coding inside athenaOne
We post charges and validate coding in athenaOne from your documentation. athenahealth's service description puts the accuracy of what is supplied at registration, onboarding and charge entry on the client — this is the step that creates most of the denials it later flags back to you for review.
HOLD and MGRHOLD bucket work
Claims sit in athenaOne hold buckets until someone clears them. athenahealth owns every Rule in athenaOne; Custom Rules, where enabled, are configured by your own Super Users and can only move a claim into HOLD or MGRHOLD. We work those buckets on a daily cadence, because athenahealth force-drops claims 15 days before the filing limit whether or not the hold was resolved — except for payers that accept electronic submission only, where it does not force-drop at all.
Client-side denial review and appeal preparation
athenahealth researches denials, maintains appeal forms and contacts payers for reconsideration. What it does not do is decide what changed. Its service description leaves the client to review the claims it flags that were denied on information your staff supplied, to review its coding advice, to check every charge on the claim for accuracy and completeness, and to supply the documentation the appeal needs. We do that review and hand athenahealth a correctable claim.
Zero-pays, underpayments and the $200 line
athenahealth re-opens zero-paid charges over $200 that it judges pursuable. Charge lines adjusted off at under $200 are flagged to you on the Zero-Pay Review Report and left for the client to re-open, and calling payers about underpayment errors sits on the client side too. We work that report, the Payment Mismatch Tracking Wizard report, and the payer calls behind them.
Fully-Worked receivables and non-standard A/R
athenahealth stops denial management and A/R follow-up once a charge becomes a Fully-Worked Receivable — among its published endpoints, a denial that has failed two separate appeal attempts, a payer that has not responded after three attempts, or a charge aged 730 or more days from the date of service. The practice may still pursue those claims, and we do, alongside the corporate, law-firm, workers' compensation and motor-vehicle balances whose follow-up the same document leaves to the client.
Reporting on what is left in your column
A monthly read on the hold buckets, the flagged-denial queue, the sub-$200 zero-pay report and the Fully-Worked list — athenaOne data that only shows up as lost money once nobody owns it. athenahealth's dashboards summarise performance; they do not tell you which client-side queue is unstaffed.
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Staff the column athenahealth leaves to you
Stay on athenaOne and keep your athenahealth agreement exactly as it is. Send us a read of your hold buckets, flagged-denial queue, Zero-Pay Review Report and Fully-Worked list, and we will show you what is sitting in the client column unworked.
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What Reporting and Visibility Looks Like
Transparency is built into every engagement. You will always know where your revenue stands and what actions are being taken on your behalf.
Monthly KPI Dashboards
Track collection rates, denial trends, days in A/R, and payer-level performance with dashboards delivered on a fixed schedule.
Real-Time Claim Tracking
See claim status updates in real time so you never have to wonder where a payment stands or when follow-up is happening.
Quarterly Business Reviews
Detailed reviews with actionable recommendations covering denial root causes, payer trends, and revenue recovery opportunities.
Proactive Alerts
Automated alerts when key metrics shift, so issues are caught and addressed before they affect your bottom line.
athenahealth Billing Services | Independent athenaOne Support Key Terms
- athenaCollector
- athenahealth's practice-management and medical-billing product, one of the three services in athenaOne Base alongside athenaClinicals and athenaCommunicator. Its published service description sets out, service line by service line, the work athenahealth performs and the work it excludes for the client to provide.
- Fully-Worked Receivable
- athenahealth's term for a charge at which it stops its own work. Its published endpoints include a charge not billed inside the payer's timely-filing limit, a charge aged 730 or more days from the date of service, a payer that has not responded after three attempts, and a denial that has failed two separate appeal attempts. athenahealth performs no further denial management or A/R follow-up on those claims; the practice remains free to pursue them.
Common Questions
Common questions about athenahealth billing services | independent athenaone support.
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Get a Free Billing AuditWhat is the difference between athenaOne, athenaCollector and athenaNet?
athenaCollector is athenahealth's practice-management and medical-billing product. athenaOne Base is the suite of athenaClinicals (the EHR), athenaCollector and athenaCommunicator (patient engagement). athenaNet is the old name for the platform itself: athenahealth's athenaOne Base Service Description states that references to "athenaNet" in a client's agreement are now replaced with "athenaOne", so if your staff still say athenaNet they mean athenaOne. We work billing inside whichever configuration you run.
Doesn't athenahealth already work my denials and A/R?
In part, yes, and it is worth being precise instead of selling against a straw man. athenahealth's athenaOne Base Service Description (Summer 2026 release, read 17 September 2026) describes an A/R follow-up service that triggers payer-contact alarms when a claim goes quiet, denial research and appeal submission, and re-opening of zero-paid charges over $200. The same document sets an "Excluded, to be provided by Client" column beside each of those: reviewing flagged denials caused by information your staff supplied, reviewing athenahealth's coding advice and the charges on the claim, re-opening sub-$200 zero-pays, using the Zero-Pay Review and Payment Mismatch Tracking Wizard reports, calling payers about underpayment errors, following up corporate and workers' compensation balances, and pursuing claims closed as Fully-Worked. That column is our scope. Check the current split against your own agreement and the latest published edition before you scope anything — athenahealth states each edition supersedes the last and may itself be superseded.
What access do you need, and how is it set up?
Your own athenaOne subscription, and named user accounts inside it. athenahealth requires multi-factor authentication for every user logging in through the default login — the requirement does not apply to single sign-on unless your organisation enables it in MFA Policy Settings — and your administrator supplies the current list of users and their roles that drives access and training assignment. We work under individually named accounts scoped to the billing role, never a shared login, under a business associate agreement with your practice. Payer web-portal credentials are the other prerequisite: athenahealth's service description puts providing those on the client, and its PayerSite tool uses them for claim status, denial research, appeal submission and duplicate remittance retrieval.
Will this change what athenahealth charges me, or move me off the platform?
Neither. You keep your athenahealth services agreement and its monthly Service Fee unchanged — athenahealth invoices you directly and debits your operating account, and the rate and any Minimum Service Commitments are whatever your own agreement says. We are a separate engagement, paid by your practice for the labour in the client column. We do not resell athenahealth, we cannot alter your fee or your contract, and there is no migration and no new software for your staff. If you are choosing between EHRs or implementing one, that is a different scope from working billing inside the system you already run.
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Staff the column athenahealth leaves to you
Stay on athenaOne and keep your athenahealth agreement exactly as it is. Send us a read of your hold buckets, flagged-denial queue, Zero-Pay Review Report and Fully-Worked list, and we will show you what is sitting in the client column unworked.
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