Have you been told that you have to trust a single vendor to handle both your medical billing as well as your medical charting? Nothing could be further from the truth.

Praxis EMR integrates seamlessly with virtually all of the best billing solutions available today. We do this to allow you the freedom to select the very best billing for your clinic. You'll never resort a single vendor selling the ‘Integration’ of inferior parts again.

Praxis Billing-PM, EMR Integration enables you to:

• Integrate to your current billing application or professional billing service with Praxis EMR.
  
  
• Integrate seamlessly with a Praxis EMR Preferred Billing Partner.

Praxis could easily sell billing services and advertise ‘single-vendor integration’. We refuse to do so, as one company integration short-changes both physicians and clinical staff , as well as patients. Before falling into the "Integrated" trap from a single Health IT vendor, please consider the following key points:

1. Your biller does not practice medicine. So, why would you trust your billing company to also develop your EMR? There is no need to resort to one company for medical charting as well as your medical billing. Praxis EMR Integrates seamlessly.
   
   
2. Single vendor integrated software is often two inferior software programs packaged as one product in order to sell. Inferior software programs do not sell without bundling. (please see Bundled Software Warning)
   
   
3. Your billing needs may change over the years. With one company integration you are trapped. Even worse- you are trapped with inferior parts.
   
   
4. Consultants who recommend one 'Integrated' vendor are paid to do so. They make more money when you buy everything from one company that then pays them. Listen to yourself and not to consultants. You know more about what your practice needs than they do.
   
   
5. Most Billing/EMR ‘Integrated’ packages are templates. Template EHRs do not serve your needs as a physician, and can seriously damage the standard of care you give.

On the other hand:

1. Billing specialists whose sole focus is your clinic's billing needs are proven to make your clinic more profitable than those billing companies that sell Integration.
   
   
2. Vendor specialization with integration is superior to integration from a single vendor. This is because you get higher quality products with better service, at a better overall cost.
   
   
3. The latest HL73 interfacing language connects Health IT applications seamlessly. This includes private clinics as well as hospitals and regional networks. You need not trust one company with your entire medicine practice.
   
   
4. Praxis EMR now shares one number for both EMR and billing support, so your questions are answered instantly from one source. There is never finger pointing between specialists.
   
   
5. Instead, Praxis EMR allows you to keep your current billing, or select the best new billing for YOUR clinic. And, you benefit from partnering with a billing specialist while at the same time allowing Praxis to do what it does best: save you time, needless stress, and improve the quality of medicine you practice. No ‘integrated’ template does this.

Praxis EMR would offer a billing service to you if there were any good reason to do so. The fact is there are none. On the contrary, integrated billing and medical record software sold by one vendor has time and again shown to be legally and financially dangerous to your practice of medicine.

The bottom line:

You deserve an excellent EMR with billing-PM and clearing-house integration. However, you need not re-invent the financial wheel of your clinic at the same time. If you accept the ‘one vendor integrated’ rhetoric, you may then be faced with the ultimate nightmare – moving your records onto a new platform – a time-consuming process fraught with errors, employee discontent, unhappy patients, and a high degree of physician frustration. Consider the stress on your overworked staff, and think of the potential loss of revenue.

Remember, billing companies have been specializing in billing for many years. Some Praxis Billing Partners have mastered their craft for over three decades. If you require a new billing solution, then Praxis EMR will guide you in selecting the very best one for your clinic. But, don’t throw the baby out with the bathwater!

Please also see: Billing Integration with Specialization (read more)