Therabill Versus Behave Health: Which EMR Software Solution is the Best Fit for Your Addiction Treatment Center?

May 22, 2023 Ben Weiss

Read on to learn the main differences - and a few similarities - between these two behavioral health EMRs.

Therabill Caters to Rehab Therapy, OT, and PT as Well as Addiction Treatment - Behave Health Focuses on Behavioral Health Only

Therabill was originally designed by a speech-language pathologist named Cynthia Dundas. As such, the platform shines as a stellar option for the Rehab Therapy world - from OT to PT. While this is certainly an element of what we commonly refer to as “behavioral health,” the EMR needs between a physical therapy group practice and, say, a residential addiction treatment center are vastly different. To say that Therabill caters to “behavioral health” is technically true, however, it is not specifically designed for addiction treatment or sober living homes.

Behave Health, on the other hand, is designed especially to meet the needs of addiction treatment professionals. Everything from clinical assessments to medication management tools are geared towards making life easier for clinicians working in addiction treatment at every level of care.

Therabill Offers Electronic Claims Submission, While Behave Health Offers a Complete Billing Service

Therabill is, above all, a billing software. It is an electronic health record, but it is designed primarily around electronic claims submission. With Therabill, you are able to submit HIPAA-compliant EDI claims without going through a clearinghouse or paying per-claim clearinghouse fees. This is certainly useful in many situations. However, Behave Health’s complete billing service is designed to replace your billing department entirely, not merely make operations more efficient with some degree of automation.

Behave Health’s RCM (Revenue Cycle Management) feature can handle VOBs, utilization reviews, billing and collections, patient responsibility payment collection as well as appeals and denials. Our billing specialists maintain relationships with decision makers at all of the biggest payers, ensuring that every claim is given a fair shake.

Therabill is Schedule-Driven With No Patient Portal Capability

Therabill is a simple EHR that places your clinical schedule at the center of its structure. This is a simple way to organize clinical notes and billing, but it is highly clinician-focused. This structure leaves no room for a patient portal, where patients can benefit from a healthcare hub of their own while accessing treatment planning, messaging and bill pay functionality.

Behave Health has portal interfaces for clinicians - certainly - but we also offer patient portals and even alumni portal functionality. Our cloud-based design and intuitive interface makes it easy to access these features from any device, anywhere. We believe in low barrier behavioral healthcare and our patient-facing features are designed around this “easy does it” principle.

Behave Health Handles Admissions With Built-In Tools But Therabill Isn’t Set Up for Admissions Specifically

At Behave Health, our all-in-one solution encompasses every software functionality your addiction treatment center might need, whether that’s an EHR, an RCM, an ERP or a CRM. Our purpose-built admissions workflow makes it easy to collect new patient applications via webform, complete a verification of benefits, manage patient leads, collect upfront fees, track referral sources and manage insurance networks - all in a single application.

Therabill, on the other hand, does not have any specific tools to help you manage addiction treatment intake workflows. If your intake process is a chaotic mis-match of old paper forms and endless computer click-throughs, Therabill won’t do much to remedy the situation.

Behave Health Handles e-Prescribing with Built in Medication Management, While Therabill Doesn’t Have Medication Specific Features

Behave Health is designed to support the best evidence-based care available for today’s behavioral health patients. In many cases, that means MAT, or Medication Assisted Treatment. For dual diagnosis patients, complementary medications for everything from high blood pressure to major depression are also a vital component of quality addiction treatment.

That’s why Behave Health prioritizes medication management, easy-to-use medpass workflows and effortless e-prescribing. Because Therabill is more focused on the physical rehab industry, it unfortunately cannot support e-prescribing or medication management.

Ready to Try Behave Health? We’re Here to Help.

Behave Health is committed to making it easier - and more profitable - to operate evidence-based, results-focused addiction treatment centers.

Our all-in-one app puts clinical, administration, staff, admissions, alumni, residents, treatment plans, billing, insurance authorizations and more - all at your fingertips.

Get your free trial started today and see why more addiction treatment centers prefer Behave Health.

PS. Just getting started with behavioral health? Need help with certification, too? Behave Health can also help direct you to the right resources for help with Licensing or Accreditation by either The Joint Commission or CARF. Mention to your product specialist that you’re interested in this service after you start your free trial!