Athenahealth customers can now use PayGround, a digital wallet platform, to automate payment processing to improve patient collections.
The platform allows providers to collect all patient payments in one platform, while enabling patients and their dependents to manage bills, across all providers, in a single place, according to a Feb. 24 press release.
Athenahealth providers can visit the Athenahealth Marketplace to link PayGround's platform to automate their account receivables workflow, which allows payments to be administered at the time of service or online by receiving a text, email or paper statement.
PayGround also enables the decoupling of payments from the patient portal, giving non-patients such as caretakers or parents the ability to make payments without needing to access patient medical information.