Case Study: Wells Family Practice achieves Meaningful Use Stage 2 attestation and improved revenue with AthenaHealth Inc.

Wells Family Practice - Customer Case Study

Wells Family Practice, a three‑provider primary care clinic in Wells, Maine, needed to attest early for Meaningful Use Stage 2 and faced several hurdles: meeting tougher patient‑engagement requirements (secure messaging), generating condition‑specific patient lists, manually entering faxed lab results, and the inability to electronically submit immunization data to the state registry.

With athenahealth’s support the practice implemented athenaPractice EHR, athenaCommunicator for patient outreach and secure messaging, a custom lab interface, and population‑health tools—plus assistance securing a CMS exemption where the state registry lacked infrastructure. The practice achieved successful MU Stage 2 attestation and saw improved patient visits and no‑show rates, increased collections, and reduced days in accounts receivable.

Wells Family Practice

Sam DiCapua

Physician and Founder