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Bridge Pay
Bridge Pay

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Product Description:

Reduce bad debt, get paid faster, and provide patients with the convenience they demand. Bridge features advanced online bill pay and financial management tools with deep integration into many of the industry's leading Revenue Cycle Management (RCM) systems. Advanced integrations with the RCM system and payment gateway allows patients to view their entire financial picture and pay their bill online in a PCI-compliant manner.

About Bridge Patient Portal:
Bridge is an award-winning enterprise patient engagement solution for healthcare organizations. The platform allows companies to replace their existing EHR’s patient portal, connect multiple health IT systems, consolidate patient engagement tools, and launch a digital front door. Scalable and easy to deploy, the solution is ONC 2015 Edition Certified and available as a client-branded web application and mobile app for Android and iOS. Bridge streamlines the patient experience by automating the entire care journey. Patients are kept engaged with customizable electronic communications, and multi-platform access to health, financial, and appointment information. Features include self-scheduling, health information access, secure patient-provider messaging, mobile intake, bill pay, telemedicine and much more. With a fully-documented and free API, healthcare organizations can easily create their own interfaces, add-on features, and run advanced reports. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in Dallas, Texas, Bridge is trusted by outpatient groups, specialty clinics, hospitals and EHR vendors as their patient engagement solution of choice. Bridge’s suite of products include: Bridge Portal The comprehensive patient portal is the company’s core product and offers secure patient-provider messaging, medical records access, lab results, prescription refill requests,, portal self-registration, two factor authentication, appointment requests and reminders, patient forms, broadcast messaging, proxy accounts, and patient education. Bridge Pay Bridge features advanced online bill pay and financial management tools with deep integration into many of the industry's leading Revenue Cycle Management and Practice Management systems. Advanced integrations with these systems and leading payment gateways allow patients to view their entire financial picture and pay their bill online in a PCI-compliant manner. Bridge Scheduling Bridge supports real-time, self-scheduling for most EHR/PM systems and accommodates custom workflows and complex decision trees. Appointments that cannot be self-scheduled can be routed as appointment requests. Once an appointment is scheduled, appointment reminders can be sent automatically via email, SMS, IVR and/or push notification for appointments made both inside and outside of the portal, even for patients that haven’t registered for a portal account. Bridge Scheduling can be made available directly on a company’s website, through Bridge’s patient portal, or in Bridge’s client-branded mobile app. Bridge Telehealth Bride’s telehealth solution leverages Zoom® for Healthcare and enables organizations to seamlessly connect telehealth into their visit workflow. It also integrates with existing modules like Bridge Intake and Bridge Scheduling to help providers develop automated, custom telehealth workflows across the entire care journey for greater efficiency. Bridge Mobile Healthcare organizations can publish their own, branded iOS/Android mobile app using the same user interface as the Bridge Portal web application, giving patients a unified web/mobile experience. The mobile app offers all the same functionality as the web application, including patient medical records, appointment scheduling, messaging, lab results, patient education, bill pay, and more. Bridge Intake A next-generation patient intake and check-in solution to conveniently capture all the important patient intake information in a single step. The product can be accessed throughout Bridge's patient engagement platform, which includes their patient portal and native mobile app, or via an SMS invitation sent to the patient prior to the visit. Bridge Intake uses a bidirectional interface to send and receive information, potentially from multiple EHRs and PM systems, and exports data to discrete data fields in the EHR/PM systems. Bridge Tasking Centralize patient requests and portal tasks with Bridge’s tasking solution. Similar to a support ticket system, Bridge Tasking is a perfect way to increase business efficiency and offer patients a better experience. Bridge Interface Interface with one or more EHR, PM, RCM, LIS and RIS systems with Bridge’s robust interface engine, Bridge Interface supports all the most popular interface technologies, including FHIR, HL7, REST API, XML, CSV and SFTP-based file interfaces.
Product Description:

Cedar Pay makes it simpler for patients to navigate the post-service financial journey and take control of their medical bills. We deliver enterprise-grade patient billing and payment solutions that leverage Cedar's cutting-edge consumer engagement technology, unique payer integrations and aligned incentives to help provider organizations increase collections, boost efficiency and deliver an exceptional patient experience. More than 55 of the nation's leading health systems and physician groups turn to Cedar to transform the patient financial experience. On average, Cedar Pay lifts patient collection rates by 30%, with 88% of patients reporting a positive experience.

About Cedar:

Cedar offers the first and only holistic solution that enables providers and payers to come together to offer an exceptional and affordable consumer financial healthcare experience. We’re reimagining the consumer aspects of healthcare, from the time an appointment is booked all the way to final payment. Only Cedar can take advantage of critical payer information and bring it together with provider financial and administrative processes to create the optimal experience for consumers navigating our challenging healthcare system. 

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By integrating with real-time eligibility and patient estimation tools, Cedar Pre--our pre-visit patient engagement solution--sets appropriate payment expectations and drives more collections by personalizing the communication of out-of-pocket cost estimates. Cedar Pre dynamically presents the right financial context, payment options and calls to action to drive optimal financial outcomes and patient satisfaction.

Cedar Pay provides a modern, consumer-first billing experience with clear, accurate and empathetic communications via digital (email and SMS) and paper-based channels. Cedar creates powerful digital engagement by communicating with patients at the best times to collect, using their preferred channels, and messages and calls to action that resonate, which is why our clients typically see 60-70% of payments self-serviced digitally.

Cedar Pay’s consolidated patient financial statement includes both professional and facility charges as well as bills for guarantors and their dependents. The unified bill is presented in a patient-centric design, translating complex medical information into straightforward language for improved patient comprehension.

Cedar Pay is the only patient billing and payment solution that directly integrates with payers to simplify and streamline the patient financial experience. We build confidence in the billing process by prominently displaying payer branding next to balances to indicate that a payer has finished processing a claim, as well as that a bill and EOB matches. We also present detailed EOB information alongside bills, eliminating the need for patients to call in to customer service or log in to multiple portals.

Cedar Pay allows patients to pay bills on their own terms through modern, personalized payment options. As a mobile-first platform, Cedar presents patients with several payment methods and options including credit card, debit card, ACH, Apple Pay, and Google Pay. The platform dynamically engages with patients in a personalized manner by incorporating relevant patient-specific payment options and/or amounts (e.g., discounts, payment plans, etc.). Additionally, Cedar Pay supports traditional payment methods such as check by mail via a provider’s lockbox and secure pay by phone via interactive voice response.

Use Cases

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Pediatric use cases:

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Users:

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Description:
  • Patient billing and collections
  • Patient engagement
  • Statement consolidation
  • Customer service
  • Reporting and reconciliation
Pediatric use cases:

Guarantors (i.e., parents and legal guardians) can access and manage bills on behalf of their dependents (i.e., children receiving healthcare services). 

Users:
  • Patients
  • Guarantors
  • Revenue cycle leaders
  • Business office representatives (e.g. customer service; treasury)

EHR Integrations

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EMR Integration & Relevant Hardware:

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EMRs Supported:

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Hardware Compatibility:

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Integrations:

Acute care EMR, Ambulatory EMR, Ancillary EMR, Patient portal, Access +/or revenue cycle

EMR Integration & Relevant Hardware:

Required

EMRs Supported:

Epic, Cerner, Meditech, Allscripts, NextGen, athena, GE, eClinicalWorks, Athenahealth, Self-developed

Hardware Compatibility:

Desktop, Mobile / Tablet (web optimized), Mobile / Tablet (native app)

Client Types

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Differentiators

Differentiators vs EHR Functionality:

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Differentiators vs Competitors:

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Differentiators vs EHR Functionality:

Consumer engagement is in our DNA: Cedar was founded as a consumer-oriented company and our commitment to improving the consumer-aspects of healthcare remains unwavering. We have built a team of professionals that come from the world's leading consumer companies, and incorporate this unique expertise and perspective into the development of Cedar Pay.

Industry-leading personalization for optimal patient experiences: At the core of Cedar Pay is a personalization engine that's powered by insights from millions of patient interactions as well as direct integrations with EHR and billing systems. Through a proven process rooted in expert data science and world-class user experience design, only Cedar Pay can surface the right information and interventions at the right moments along the financial journey to drive the best patient experience and payment outcomes.

Outsized results today, ongoing value into the future: Cedar Pay customers see an immediate impact to their bottom line with high patient satisfaction, and don’t have to wait for the next product release cycle to unlock additional business value. Cedar is constantly releasing new features and optimizations in Cedar Pay as well as making focused investments in innovation.

Differentiators vs Competitors:

Unparalleled investment in the future: Unlike other point patient billing solutions that have been acquired by larger companies and competing for resources, Cedar operates independently and is investing heavily in Cedar Pay and other products to solve a very specific problem--improving the consumer financial aspects of healthcare.

Industry-leading personalization for optimal patient experiences: At the core of Cedar Pay is a personalization engine that's powered by insights from millions of patient interactions as well as direct integrations with EHR and billing systems. Through a proven process rooted in expert data science and world-class user experience design, only Cedar Pay can surface the right information and interventions at the right moments along the financial journey to drive the best patient experience and payment outcomes.

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Founded in 2012

Founded in 2016

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