Insights Dashboards — athenahealth Services
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The Insights Dashboards provide metrics, charts, tables, and tips to help improve practice revenue cycle performance, clinical efficiency, and patient engagement.
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Monitor how effectively athenahealth's managed services are working on your behalf and where your practice can improve outcomes.
From the athenahealth Services landing page, you can access these dashboards if the athenahealth service is enabled for your organization:
- athenaOne® Medical Coding — Track athenaOne® Medical Coding performance, including turnaround times, coding independence, and billing speed, to maximize service value and minimize practice burden.
- athenaOne® Authorization Management — Track how effectively athenaOne® Authorization Management is handling authorizations on your behalf, including completion rates, denial outcomes, and where practice intervention is still needed.
On the Main Menu, click Reports. Under INSIGHTS DASHBOARDS, click athenahealth Services.
To access the Insights Dashboards, you must have specific required permissions. See the Insights Dashboards > User access and permissions O-help article section for details.
For key features of the Insights Dashboards, see the Insights Dashboards > Key features O-help article section for details.
To view metric definitions on a dashboard, hover over the metric names in the Breakdown table (if available).
Track athenaOne® Medical Coding performance, including turnaround times, coding independence, and billing speed, to maximize service value and minimize practice burden.
| athenaOne® Medical Coding | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Tab | Section | Metric | Definition |
| Overview | Medical Coding Performance at a Glance | Utilization Rate | Percentage of service-eligible visits that were sent to Medical Coding (and then billed) |
| Medical Coding Worked Independently | Percentage of visits sent to Medical Coding (and then billed) that were coded without needing assistance from your practice | ||
| Medical Coding Worked Independently TAT | Average number of business days it takes for Medical Coding to code a visit when no assistance is needed from your practice | ||
| E&M Level Distribution | E&M Level Distribution for Office/Outpatient Visits | Percentage of E&M Charges Billed | Distribution of code levels on claims created by Medical Coding, for office/outpatient visits that provided evaluation and management (E&M) services. |
| Service Utilization | Service Utilization at a Glance | Utilization Volume | Number of service-eligible visits that were sent to Medical Coding (and then billed) |
| Billing | Time to Bill at a Glance | Average Time to Bill | Average time between the date of service (or last date of service, for care provided over multiple days) and the first claim submission to the payer for claims created by Medical Coding |
| Average Time with Practice | Average time that the practice took as part of the total time to bill, including time spent closing the encounter, sending the visit to Medial Coding, replying to questions from Medical Coding, and handling claim hold issues | ||
| Average time with Medical Coding | Average time that Medical Coding took as part of the total time to bill, including time spent coding the visit and handling claim hold issues | ||
| Requests for Practice Input | Practice Input Needed at a Glance | Visits Needing Practice Input | Number of visits that were sent to Medical Coding (and then billed) that required assistance from your practice to code |
Track how effectively athenaOne® Authorization Management is handling authorizations on your behalf, including completion rates, denial outcomes, and where practice intervention is still needed.
| athenaOne® Authorization Management | ||
|---|---|---|
| Section | Metric | Definition |
| Authorization Management Performance at a Glance | Eligible Orders Worked Without Client Intervention | Number of eligible orders resolved automatically (no prior authorization or referral required) plus orders completed manually by athenahealth without client involvement. |
| One Week Completion Rate | Percentage of manually worked non-urgent authorization tasks completed within 5 business days. | |
| Unfavorable Outcome Rate | Percentage of orders worked by athenahealth where the prior authorization was denied by the payer or is pending peer-to-peer review. | |