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Last updated: November 2025

Lightning Step overview

What is Lightning Step?

Lightning Step is a leading provider of enterprise software for behavioral health and addiction treatment centers. The all-in-one platform combines electronic medical records (EMR), customer relationship management (CRM), and revenue cycle management (RCM) capabilities to provide a comprehensive and integrated approach to managing patient care. With Lightning Step’s intuitive and user-friendly software, healthcare professionals can streamline care delivery, improve patient outcomes, and drive operational efficiency.

Founded by a team of healthcare and technology experts, Lightning Step is committed to delivering innovative solutions that meet the unique needs of the behavioral health and addiction treatment industry. We are constantly evolving our platform to keep pace with the latest trends and best practices in healthcare, and our team of dedicated professionals is always available to provide support and guidance to our customers.

At Lightning Step, we believe that every person deserves access to high-quality behavioral health and addiction treatment. We are proud to be a trusted partner to treatment centers around the world, helping them to deliver the best possible care to their patients.

EMR:

Lightning Step’s EMR is designed to streamline care delivery and improve patient outcomes by providing a comprehensive and integrated approach to managing patient care.

With our EMR, healthcare professionals can easily access and update patient records, schedule appointments, and track treatment progress. Our intuitive and user-friendly platform allows you to spend less time on administrative tasks and more time focusing on delivering top-quality care to your patients.

In addition to basic EMR functionality, our platform also includes advanced features such as electronic prescribing, lab integration, and population health management. These tools help to optimize patient care and reduce the risk of errors, ensuring that your patients receive the best possible care.

CRM:

Lightning Step’s CRM system is designed to help you manage and optimize your relationships with patients, prospects, and referral sources.

With our CRM, you can easily track interactions with patients, schedule appointments, and manage your marketing and outreach efforts. Our platform includes a range of tools and features to help you build and maintain strong relationships with your patients, including automated appointment reminders, patient surveys, and marketing automation.

In addition to patient relationship management, our CRM system also includes tools to help you manage your relationships with referral sources. You can track interactions with referring providers, manage referral processes, and monitor referral performance to ensure that you are getting the most out of your partnerships.

RCM:

Lightning Step's RCM system is designed to help you optimize your billing and payment processes, ensuring that you get paid for the care you provide.

With our RCM, you can easily manage claims submission, track payment status, and resolve billing disputes. Our platform includes a range of tools and features to help you streamline your RCM process, including electronic claim submission, claim status tracking, and denial management.

In addition to traditional RCM functionality, our platform also includes advanced features such as patient billing and payment management. These tools help to improve the patient experience by providing an easy and convenient way for patients to pay their bills and manage their financial responsibilities.

Key benefits of using Lightning Step


Our care management platform is a flexible multi-tenant system that provides maximum security for each organization’s individual, distinct database including one facility or locations across the country. All updates to the system are completed seamlessly with no downtime.

Other attributes include:
- Global Hosting Partner: Amazon Web Services – All Time Zones across the Americas

- Production, testing, and training environments for ultimate testing and updates

- Continuous back-up, restore process for 24/7 care management

- Strict internal hierarchy, using a least privilege model for security

- Browser encryption and encryption at rest
Single Sign on (SSO) through Microsoft, Okta, and other OAUTH providers (if implemented)

- Open APIs for sending & receiving private health data (if implemented)

Lightning Step works with third-party applications. These applications are not mandatory but are available to enhance the streamlining of your internal processes. Separate contracts with third-party applications are required.

- CallTrackingMetrics: For call tracking and referral and outside provider documentation

- Salesforce: Salesforce AppExchange for managing referrals

- Waystar: In-house insurance plan clearing house

- DoseSpot: SureScripts certified EPCS e-prescribing system 

- Zoom Health: For secure telehealth services launched from the calendar 

- Twilio: For secure texting and appointment reminders  

- PaySimple: For point of service payments in person, and via the patient portal

- Hatch Compliance: Compliance solution for state, Joint Commission and CARF Standards

Starting price

Lightning Step’s user interface

Ease of use rating:

Lightning Step reviews

Overall rating

4.6

/5

14

Positive reviews

93

%

Rating breakdown
  • Value for money
  • Ease of use
  • Features
  • Customer support
  • Likelihood to recommend9.08/10
Rating distribution

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4

3

2

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1

Pros
“Ease of use with tons of helpful features. Their customer support is fantastic also.”
CC

Clark C.

COO

“Ve had an excellent overall experience. They have been critical in our company’s success.”
JK

Jay K.

COO

“Lightning Step is super easy and convenient technology. It is helpful every time you use it.”
AJ

Abby J.

Mental Health Coordinator

Cons
“LightningStep has left my entire staff angry at me for making such a bad choice in EMR. They do not live up to their promises and the problems with this software will cost you a huge amount of money.”
ND

Nora D.

CEO

“This led to charges not dropping and customers not getting reminders, costing our company thousands in missed appointments and a mess in the billing department.”
ND

Nora D.

CEO

“Customer support was so slow that we received resolutation at times WEEKS after the initial complaint. The telehealth feature was a total mess.”
ND

Nora D.

CEO

Who uses Lightning Step?

Based on 14 verified user reviews.

Company size

Small Businesses

Enterprises

Midsize Businesses

Top industries

Hospital & Health Care
Mental Health Care
Alternative Medicine
Education Management
Others

Use cases

Mental Health
Substance Abuse EMR
Electronic Medical Records
Revenue Cycle Management
Medical

Lightning Step's key features

Most critical features, based on insights from Lightning Step users:

Medical billing
Charting
E-Prescribing
Claims management
Document management
HIPAA compliant

All Lightning Step features

Features rating:

Task scheduling
Reminders
Payment collection
Lab integration
Invoice management
Insurance eligibility verification
Forms management
EMR/EHR
Electronic payments
Compliance tracking
Decision support
Activity dashboard
Template management
Calendar management
Appointment scheduling
Workflow management
Revenue management
Reporting & statistics
AI copilot
Referral tracking
Practice management
API
Multi-Location
Live chat
Inventory management
Claims scrubbing
Historical reporting
Clinic interoperability
Coding assistance
Communication management
Document storage
Denial management
Customizable forms
Customizable templates
Customizable reports

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Lightning Step integrations (3)

Integrations rated by users

We looked at 14 user reviews to identify which products are mentioned as Lightning Step integrations and how users feel about them.

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CTM

Integration rating: 5.0 (1)

It’s helpful to run everything from one place. Keeps sensitive information protected.

JK

Jay K.

COO

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Waystar

Integration rating: 5.0 (2)

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Lightning Step support options

Typical customers

Freelancers
Small businesses
Mid size businesses
Large enterprises

Platforms supported

Web
Android
iPhone/iPad

Support options

Email/Help Desk
Phone Support
Knowledge Base

Training options

In Person
Live Online
Webinars
Videos

Lightning Step FAQs

Q. Who are the typical users of Lightning Step?

Lightning Step has the following typical customers:
Large Enterprises, Mid Size Business, Small Business


Q. What languages does Lightning Step support?

Lightning Step supports the following languages:
English, Spanish


Q. Does Lightning Step offer an API?

Yes, Lightning Step has an API available for use.


Q. What other apps does Lightning Step integrate with?

Lightning Step integrates with the following applications:
Waystar, CTM, Twilio


Q. What level of support does Lightning Step offer?

Lightning Step offers the following support options:
Email/Help Desk, Phone Support, Knowledge Base

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