Practice Mate

I use EHR 24/7 along with Practice Mate. The systems talk to each other and make coding and billing easy. We use a billing company, and they submit the claims and follow things through to the end for us. It's a very simple process.

With Practice Mate, you can bill participating and non-participating providers through their system, and it's all free! The only time you have to pay is if more than half of your submitted claims for the month are non-participating, but even then it only costs $35 for the month, regardless of how many claims are submitted. It's a great deal.

We are still pretty new to the system, but to this point we haven't had any problems. I'm excited to get things rolling.

I've used Office Ally for over 10 years, and in the early years it has worked very well for me, however, if I knew what I know about Office Ally now, I would not have started using it.

In the last several years, there have been more mistakes made by practice mate, claims that appear to have been submitted that were not. Fortunately, the Office Ally Tech support is usually very helpful when I call them, although in this case of some claims not going through, that issue has still not been resolved.
The biggest issue however, that I would urge users of Practice Mate to consider, is if you use this program to write notes, at some point in time, if you ever want to stop using Practice Mate, you will not have easy access to these notes. I was told that there is no easy way of downloading or printing these notes. You have to go into each session, and cut and paste each note onto another document. If you don't want to go through this trouble, and for me it would be thousands of notes I would have to cut and paste, it effectively locks you into using Practice Mate, and almost impossible to shift over to another billing software program. You can export patient demographic information to other programs, but notes cannot be exported. If I had known this when I started with Office Ally, I would not have started. Hopefully Office Ally will fix this problem which could easily dissuade users from wanting to sign on.

Practice Mate covers all of my needs for my chiropractic office. It takes time to train employees in on it, like any other product, but it's very easy to use once you get the hang of it.

I have appointment times that are 15 minutes and also 30 minutes, but I'm only able to pick one time slot for all of my appointments. I use the 15 minute slot and have to remember not to schedule people immediately after a 30 minute slot, since the reminder only uses a 15 minute slot. Otherwise, I have no problems with Practice Mate.

Easy and friendly use! And it is matched seamlessly with the EHR of Office Ally.

For the appointments column, if there is more content display will be more convenient! The billing is not good enough.