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EHR integrations
Client types
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Differentiators
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Description

Product Description:

For hospitals, it is 4x harder to collect from patients than insurance payers. Patients now make up to 30% of hospital revenue but are 4x harder to collect from than insurance payers1 due to complexity, regulation and patient means. 

Sift Healthcare provides advanced analytics and machine learning integrations to optimize patient payments. Sift combines patient payment expertise and AI-driven intelligence to equip providers with an integrated toolset to optimize patient financial engagement.

Patient collections should be a dialogue, not a solicitation. Sift integrates AI into your patient engagement platform to guide patient communications activities – maximizing collections while improving patient engagement.

  • Account Segmentation
  • Patient Contact Strategy
  • Payment Plan Provisioning
  • Improved collections, increased payment plan adoption, and reduced inbound/outbound calls

Propensity-to-pay for a person, not a number. Sift goes beyond credit scores, leveraging historical data to determine the best engagement approach for each patient.

  • Improved Patient Satisfaction
  • Pre-service patient financing and collection recommendations that help avoid surprises and set expectations
  • Lookalike predictive models, not credit scores and rule logic
  • Increased upfront collections with more empathy
About Sift Healthcare:
Sift Healthcare provides intelligent and accessible solutions for provider systems that need to extract meaning and value from their vast stores of payments data. Sift organizes and normalizes all of your payments data in one location, providing a holistic view of collections. Our denials and patient collection dashboards, payer scorecards, propensity to pay tools, market intelligence reports and enriched patient profiles enable revenue cycle teams to optimize workflows and accelerate cash flow.
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. 

Compatibility level

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Clients

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Product Capabilities

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

Description:

Sift's intelligence tools and integrated ML recommendations around patient payments enable health systems to:

  • Pre-clear patients upfront.
  • Get more patients on payment plans, earlier.
  • Execute omnichannel contact across the entirety of the patient journey.
  • Help patients commit to meeting their financial obligations before service.
  • Utilize an integrated view of insurance-patient responsibility to optimize resolution and present patient responsibility, early and more accurately.
Pediatric use cases:

None provided

Users:

VP or Revenue Cycle, PFS executives, PFS team, SBO and CBO personnel, Patient Payment Collections Team

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

Integrations:

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

EMR Integration & Relevant Hardware:

None provided

EMRs Supported:

Epic, Cerner, Meditech, Allscripts

Hardware Compatibility:

None provided

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:
  • Unified and normalized data sets that are accessible and provide a full view of patient payment behavior 
  • Dynamic machine learning based workflows, rather than rigid rules-based logic
  • Intelligence that enables the most effective use of EHR functionality 
Differentiators vs Competitors:

None provided

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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