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Indiana State Medical Association to Promote Athenahealth Services to Physicians

Posted on: Wednesday, 5 December 2007, 09:00 CST

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. and WATERTOWN, Mass., Dec. 5, 2007 (PRIME NEWSWIRE) -- athenahealth, Inc., a leading provider of Internet-based business services to physician practices, and the Indiana State Medical Association (ISMA), the state's leading medical physician organization, today announced an agreement to offer athenahealth's centrally-hosted practice management services to over 8,400 ISMA physician members to help drive increased operational and financial outcomes. Under the terms of the agreement, ISMA members will receive a discount on athenahealth's services.

"The ISMA leaders are confident in athenahealth's ability to provide accurate, efficient, and cost-effective on-demand business solutions to improve the business of medicine for Indiana physicians," stated Dr. Jon Marhenke, ISMA president. "As the twelfth state medical association to endorse and recommend athenahealth to member physicians, we recognize athenahealth as the premier solution in today's medical practice environment."

athenahealth's on-demand practice management and billing service, athenaCollector(sm), integrates web-based practice management software, a continually updated payer rules knowledgebase and back-office processing specialists into a single service. athenahealth's services allow physician practices to optimize collections under new reimbursement trends in the marketplace, such as pay-for-performance (P4P) programs and consumer-directed health care plans, while helping to ensure compliance with best-practice guidelines.

"Indiana joins a growing list of state medical societies that are looking to leverage our on-demand business services to drive consistent financial outcomes for their physician member communities," said Nancy Brown, Senior Vice President of Business Development and Government Affairs for athenahealth. "With athenahealth's services being delivered on a single Internet-based application and our shared rules knowledgebase of millions of payer reimbursement requirements integrated with our back office service operations, ISMA members will now benefit from the collective experience of our entire national physician network."

The ISMA will also look to educate its members on payer behaviors through athenahealth's PayerView(sm) Ranking initiative. The PayerView data is derived from athenahealth's web-native athenaNet(r) system database, and ranks health insurers according to specific measures of financial, administrative performance, and medical policy complexity. Launched in 2006, PayerView has emerged as an industry-unique tool allowing physicians to make better, data-based decisions about whether to continue working with certain payers.

About Indiana State Medical Association

Representing approximately 8,400 of the state's physicians, the ISMA has worked for 158 years to promote sound health care policy in the public, private and governmental sectors and to support continuing medical education for the state's doctors.

About athenahealth

athenahealth is a leading provider of internet-based business services for physician practices. The Company's service offerings are based on proprietary web-native practice management and electronic medical record (EMR) software, a continuously updated payer knowledge-base and integrated back-office service operations. For more information visit www.athenahealth.com or call (888) 652-8200.

This press release contains forward-looking statements which are made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, including statements regarding the benefits of the Company's service offerings. These statements are neither promises nor guarantees, and are subject to a variety of risks and uncertainties, many of which are beyond our control, which could cause actual results to differ materially from those contemplated in these forward-looking statements. In particular, the risks and uncertainties include, among other things: the risk that our services offerings will not operate in the manner that we expect, due to design flaws, security breaches or otherwise; potential interruptions or delays in our internet-based services offerings; our reliance upon third parties, such as computer hardware, software, data-hosting and internet infrastructure providers, which reliance may result in failures or disruptions in our service offerings; errors or omissions included in our payer and clinical intelligence rules engine and database; and the evolving and complex government regulatory compliance environment in which we and our clients operate. Existing and prospective investors are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date hereof. athenahealth, Inc. undertakes no obligation to update or revise the information contained in this press release, whether as a result of new information, future events or circumstances or otherwise. For additional disclosure regarding these and other risks faced by athenahealth, Inc., see the disclosure contained in our public filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

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CONTACT: Indiana State Medical Association Kathleen Hopper (317) 261-2060 khopper@ismanet.org athenahealth, Inc. John Hallock (Media), Manager, Public Affairs & Corporate Communications (617) 402-1428 media@athenahealth.com Carl Byers (Investors), Chief Financial Officer (617) 402-1113 IR@athenahealth.com

Source: PrimeNewswire

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