# Essentials Reviews
**Vendor:** Availity  
**Category:** [Revenue Cycle Management Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/revenue-cycle-management)  
**Average Rating:** 4.0/5.0  
**Total Reviews:** 42
## About Essentials
From the first phone call with a new patient through final claim reconciliation and payment, you need a simpler way to collect, submit, and track the administrative, clinical, and financial data that make healthcare possible. Availity Essentials is the place to connect with your payers—at no cost to providers. Availity works with hundreds of payers nationwide to give providers a one-stop-portal where they can check eligibility, submit claims, collect patient payments and track ERAs, and even sign up for EFT. Your Essentials account gets you access to all this and more, with one password. You can also update your provider profiles, manage quality-of-care paperwork, and get detailed reporting about your office’s standard HIPAA and other payer transactions.





## Essentials Discussions
  - [Is availity free for providers?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/is-availity-free-for-providers) - 1 comment
  - [How much does it cost to use availity?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/how-much-does-it-cost-to-use-availity) - 1 comment
  - [What insurances use availity?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-insurances-use-availity) - 2 comments
  - [What is availity used for?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-availity-used-for) - 1 comment

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## Essentials Features
**Workflow Automation**
- Contract Management - Health Care Credentialing
- Workflow Management - Health Care Credentialing
- Database Management - Health Care Credentialing
- User Authorization - Health Care Credentialing

**Clinical**
- Compliance - Revenue Cycle Management (RCM)
- Software Integrations - Revenue Cycle Management (RCM)
- Task Automation - Revenue Cycle Management (RCM)

**Efficiency **
- Claims Data Automation - Healthcare Claims Management
- Electronic Submissions - Healthcare Claims Management
- Clearinghouse Integration - Healthcare Claims Management
- Claims Process Workflow - Healthcare Claims Management

**Network Management**
- Credentialing
- Claims Management
- Notifications
- Inter-Systems Communication

**Compliance**
- Facility Management - Health Care Credentialing
- Facility Compliance Management - Health Care Credentialing
- Industry Compliance Management - Health Care Credentialing

**Financial**
- Billing Automation - Revenue Cycle Management (RCM)
- Clearinghouse Integration - Revenue Cycle Management (RCM)
- Claims Management - Revenue Cycle Management (RCM)

**Accuracy**
- Claims Resubmission - Healthcare Claims Management
- Patient Data Security - Healthcare Claims Management
- Claims Scrubbing - Healthcare Claims Management

**Data Management**
- Insights
- Data Reconciliation
- Master Data Management
- System of Record

**Verification**
- Provider Database Collection - Health Care Credentialing
- Privileging - Health Care Credentialing
- Commitee Review - Health Care Credentialing

**Document Management**
- Credentialing e-Documentation - Health Care Credentialing
- Document Database - Health Care Credentialing
- Information Audit - Health Care Credentialing

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