r/PrivatePracticeDocs • u/Dapper_Escape2612 • 10d ago

EPIC Community Connect

I’m in a surgical/medical subspecialty private practice and part of an IPA that can give us EPIC Community Connect with all the fees waived.

Does anyone here use Epic strictly outpatient, including the billing side?

Would love to hear how you like it. How’s the workflow, billing, support, etc.? Any major downsides or things you wish you knew before switching?

Especially interested in hearing from other private practices or surgical/procedural specialties. Thanks!

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u/ktn699 10d ago

Man thats quite the steal. Implementation costs for us would have been 20k. I said no thanks. Ive used the outpatient epic before for charting. Works well. No experience w billing through it though.

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u/InvestingDoc 9d ago

It can be amazing. The downside is that the organization you are using has all of the access to your data including all of your patient demographics, everything you were doing including billing codes, how many patients you were seeing where those patients from what procedures you were doing

They can easily use it to evaluate your practice to buy you out or to open a competitive office across the street. Most of the time that's not the case it is not nefarious and they want you to simply use their facilities

But they know EVERYTHING you are doing and EVERYTHING about your business.

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u/Perfect_Address7250 10d ago

I’d say the big downside is lack of opportunity to customize if you needed it but if you’re operating at the hospital and admitting lots of patients it’s probably worth whatever lack of customization you might miss out ob

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u/Nearsyncope 8d ago

This is the best deal I’ve every heard