Fairfield County Bariatrics Case Study

Realizing the Full Value of a Partnership

Fairfield County Bariatrics partnered with NextGen Healthcare to upgrade existing systems and improve outcomes.

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The Challenge

Making a good thing better

Fairfield County Bariatrics had partnered with NextGen Healthcare but had not yet experienced the full value this partnership could deliver to their practice. They were successfully using NextGen® Enterprise EHR and NextGen® Enterprise PM but were several system upgrades behind.
Further, the practice’s financial performance had not been optimized. Financial benchmarks such as accounts receivable (AR) turnover and days sales outstanding (DSO) needed improvement.
NextGen Healthcare has given me all that I could ask for. The ethics and the way the business is conducted makes every employee feel wholesome, and the experience has been amazing.
Lekha Sampangi
Staff Engineer

The Solution

Implementing a successful upgrade

The practice initiated a process to fully upgrade its NextGen Healthcare systems. This upgrade would help streamline processes and create the operational efficiencies needed to support their staff, enable providers to spend more time with patients, and achieve other practice goals.

Fairfield County Bariatrics set an aggressive timeframe for system training and implementation. “We completed the implementation in a couple of phases with Phase 1 being data extraction and migration and Phase 2 being planning and training,” said Katy Andrews Dunay, practice administrator at Fairfield County Bariatrics.

Fairfield Bariatrics also adopted NextGen® Financial Suite. Thanks to the decision to adopt this revenue cycle management solution, during implementation of the upgrade they maintained cash flow with no dip in revenue cycle performance.
It’s a supplement to what you’re already doing and it makes the staff that much more productive. It lets them be able to provide great patient care—gives those couple more moments that they can have a better interface with the patient.
Mike Harris
Chief Information Officer
Feather River Tribal Health, Inc.

The Benefits

Implementing a successful upgrade

The practice initiated a process to fully upgrade its NextGen Healthcare systems. This upgrade would help streamline processes and create the operational efficiencies needed to support their staff, enable providers to spend more time with patients, and achieve other practice goals.

Fairfield County Bariatrics set an aggressive timeframe for system training and implementation. “We completed the implementation in a couple of phases with Phase 1 being data extraction and migration and Phase 2 being planning and training,” said Katy Andrews Dunay, practice administrator at Fairfield County Bariatrics.

Fairfield Bariatrics also adopted NextGen® Financial Suite. Thanks to the decision to adopt this revenue cycle management solution, during implementation of the upgrade they maintained cash flow with no dip in revenue cycle performance.

Improving accuracy and increasing provider satisfaction

Upon implementing NextGen Financial Suite, weekly check-ins were initiated to assess and optimize performance.

“Our NextGen Healthcare account manager reports issues, identifies trends, and reconciles cash logs to the penny,” Dunay said. The practice appreciates the reporting accuracy and the single point of contact who responsively answers questions and addresses requests.

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