Phreesia vs Tennr
Two Patient Access & Intake vendors, side by side. Facts from public sources; judgments are ours.
At a glance
Derived from public facts · a rough scale, not a ranking
| Phreesia | Tennr | |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing model | Subscription (per user or PMPM) · Custom quote, roughly $250+ monthly plus transaction fees | Not published · enterprise pricing by workflow and volume |
| Speed to go live | Standard EHR-integrated intake rollout | Typical 2-3 month implementation |
| Automation model | Software platform · Intake, payments, and messaging | Software platform · Document AI with human review queues |
| Built for | Small practices, Mid-size groups, Enterprise systems | Small practices, Mid-size groups |
| Security posture | SOC 2 Type II, HITRUST, PCI DSS, HIPAA | SOC 2 Type II, HIPAA |
| Company maturity | 21 yrs (est. 2005) | 5 yrs (est. 2021) |
| Financial backing | Public (NYSE: PHR) | $160M+ · Series C |
| Named customers | 2 named | 5 named |
| Published results | Specific numbers public | Specific numbers public |
| Documented integrations | 5 listed | 4 listed |
| Third-party validation | None found | None found |
Bottom line
- Pick Phreesia if you want a proven, heavily certified intake and payments layer tied to your EHR and can live with custom quotes and module fees.
- Pick Tennr if fax-heavy referral intake is your bottleneck and you want it automated without touching your EHR.
Phreesia
Public company powering patient intake and payments
- Founded
- 2005
- HQ
- Wilmington, DE
- Stage
- Public (NYSE: PHR)
- Raised
- n/a
What it does
- Digital patient intake, registration, and consent management
- Insurance eligibility verification and card capture
- Patient payments, payment plans, and receivables financing (AccessOne)
- Automated appointment scheduling, reminders, and waitlist fill
- Patient surveys, screenings, and post-visit engagement
- Handles roughly 1 in 6 US patient visits
Where it's strong
- Massive proven scale: over 180 million patient visits enabled in 2025 and deep bidirectional integrations with every major EHR.
- Now GAAP profitable ($480.6M revenue, $2.3M net income in fiscal 2026), so vendor viability risk is low.
- The AccessOne acquisition adds patient payment plans and financing, making it a fuller patient-payments platform.
What buyers should weigh
- Part of its business model is pharma-sponsored patient messaging, which some organizations find uncomfortable in an intake tool.
- Pricing runs higher than point solutions, and smaller practices may pay for breadth they will not use.
- It covers intake, access, and payments but is not a denials or back-end RCM solution.
Named customers
HeartPlace · Summit Orthopedics
Integrations
Tennr
AI that reads faxed referrals and moves them to booked visits
- Founded
- 2021
- HQ
- New York, NY
- Stage
- Series C
- Raised
- $160M+
What it does
- Reads faxed referrals and extracts structured patient data
- Proprietary RaeLM models trained on 100M healthcare documents
- Qualifies patients against payer documentation criteria automatically
- Runs eligibility and benefits checks on incoming referrals
- Routes orders and populates downstream intake systems
- Tennr Network gives referrers and patients live referral status
Where it's strong
- Best-in-class at the ugly problem of fax and document-based referral intake, processing 10 million documents a month.
- Purpose-built models check documentation against payer criteria upfront, which cuts denials rather than just speeding data entry.
- Heavy funding ($101M Series C at a $605M valuation) and tripling revenue suggest it will keep shipping fast.
What buyers should weigh
- Strongest in referral-driven businesses like HME/DME, imaging, labs, and infusion; less relevant if referrals are not your bottleneck.
- Still a young company scaling quickly, so implementation attention may vary as the customer base grows.
- Pricing is volume-based on document throughput, which buyers should model carefully against current intake costs.
- Plan for a 2-3 month implementation and roughly a year to full ROI.
Named customers
Rothman Orthopaedics · Talkiatry · TwelveStone Health Partners · Performance Home Medical · BetterNight
Integrations
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