Bonafide Medical Group (BMG) is, in theory, a cloud-based command post that corrals inventory, scheduling, documentation, and billing into one interface. But—ojo—its DNA was forged inside Ambulatory Surgery Centers, not therapy gyms. That heritage matters. Before you sign a multi-year agreement, ask yourself: Will our clinic really exploit surgical-grade bells and whistles, or will we pay for functionality we won’t touch?
Glossary note: Bonafide Medical Group refers to the software platform produced by Bonafide Medical Group, LLC—a U.S. health-tech vendor specializing in peri-operative and specialty-practice workflow automation.
At its core, “Bonafide” designates an enterprise practice-management suite that unifies five pillars—Inventory, Scheduling, Registration, Workflow Routing, and Reporting—within a HIPAA-compliant, browser-based environment. That’s the textbook answer. The real-world answer is trickier and depends on your clinic’s idiosyncrasia.
Running speech, OT/PT, or ABA programs is already an encrucijada of insurance rules, CPT minutiae, and ever-shifting authorizations. Bonafide promises relief: fewer manual tasks, tighter compliance, smoother hand-offs. Sounds lovely, right? Yet therapy leaders routinely whisper, If the platform is sculpted for surgeons, will my front desk swim—or sink?
Solum, by contrast, was born inside therapy workflows. Its AI assistant automates intake, benefits checks, and prior authorizations; clinics report up to 50 % less admin drag and 30 % operational-cost savings—no es broma. So the existential question becomes: Do we crave a surgical battleship, or a therapy-tuned speedboat?
Bonafide threads together five engines. Let’s unpack them—parsimonia be damned.
Meanwhile Solum skips the kitchen sink and zeroes in on intake-to-schedule velocity. Its neural agent listens to voicemails, parses faxes, calls payers, and updates the EHR. Clinicians log in and—boom—eligibility is already verified. Which engine room feels more therapeutic?
Therapy owners obsess over Days Sales Outstanding (DSO) because payroll waits for no one. Bonafide can shorten DSO by squashing billing hand-offs—if staff master its labyrinthine screens. Solum attacks DSO differently: by capturing clean eligibility data before the first visit, it prevents rejected claims altogether. Which tactic is safer for your cash flow?
And let’s not ignore ERA posting. Bonafide integrates with clearinghouses but often needs middleware. Solum pipes 835 files straight into the ledger. Fewer hops, fewer gremlins.
BMG touts AES-256 encryption, audit logs, and role-based access. Solid. Solum matches that yet layers on real-time PHI redaction inside AI transcripts, a forward-leaning safeguard rarely found in legacy systems. In an era of data breaches, incremental protection is priceless—or at least lawsuit-reducing.
Bonafide’s project plan reads like an epic—all-hands workshops, data-migration sprints, validation weekends. Clinics with lean admin teams may feel overwhelmed. Solum’s onboarding resembles a guided sprint: upload payer fee schedules, connect your phone line, map EHR fields, and you’re off to the races. Who has bandwidth for a nine-month marathon?
Solum wins when speed-to-value and therapy specificity trump breadth. Bonafide wins when surgical-grade inventory control outweighs everything else. Simple.
Every clinic stands at its own fork in the road. If your shelves overflow with implants, your OR runs three turns a day, and you crave granular utilization analytics, Bonafide may earn its keep. If, however, your therapists chase insurance cards, fax prior-auth packets, and lose hours on the phone, Solum’s laser-focused AI will likely deliver faster relief with fewer headaches.
So—what’s your appetite for complexity? Choose wisely, because platform inertia is real, migration is lugubrious, and your cash flow won’t wait for anyone.
