Cedar
Makes hospital bills comprehensible after the visit, lifts how much gets paid, and points patients at coverage they qualify for.
Highlights
- Itemized, plain-language bills that explain charges, insurance adjustments, and patient responsibility
- Configurable payment plans and pre-service estimates to reduce surprise balances
- Financial-assistance and charity-care screening built into the payment flow
- Cedar Cover: Medicaid enrollment, proactive renewal workflows, and medication assistance (via Fortuna Health)
- Denials-resolution support to recover revenue tied to coverage gaps
- Omnichannel outreach across text, email, and web tuned to patient propensity to pay
- EHR and revenue-cycle integrations spanning Epic, Cerner, and major billing systems
- Analytics on collection rates, self-service adoption, and satisfaction for finance teams
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About Cedar
What it is
Cedar handles the financial conversation after a hospital visit: replacing the standard incomprehensible statement with something a patient can read, offering payment options, and connecting people to coverage such as Medicaid that they may be eligible for and unaware of.
Why it's different
It is an unusually well-aligned product in a sector where that is rare. Hospitals fail to collect enormous sums because patients cannot understand what they owe or why, and patients are pushed into debt by bills they would have had covered had anyone told them. Making the bill legible improves both sides at once, and the coverage-matching is the part that genuinely helps the person rather than only the provider. The framing to keep in view is that this is still collections software, sold on lifting revenue, and a better-designed request for money is still a request for money. It is also a solution to an administrative dysfunction specific to American healthcare.
How people use it
Health systems use it after the visit, where the measurable outcomes are collection rate, days to payment and how many patients are connected to coverage. The last of those is the number worth asking about in any evaluation, because it is the one that distinguishes this from a payment portal with better typography.
Written by the n3os team. We are not affiliated with Cedar.
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