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FUSE
FUSE

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Description

Product Description:
FUSE eliminates the manual reconciliation of remittances to deposits, along with the manual posting of payments into the patient accounting or practice management system.
About Big Data Healthcare:

Big Data Healthcare provides automated ERA/EFT reconciliation, EOB conversion, and cash-posting solutions to healthcare providers. Many healthcare providers perform these tasks manually, which requires significant time and money. Automating these process frees up resources to work on other essential tasks.

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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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:

A large, Texas-based healthcare provider was trying to accelerate cash-posting. Multiple banks, multiple bank accounts, and problematic payer 835 formats was the everyday norm. Their cash-posting team was having a difficult time managing 835s from multiple sources, all the while trying to create never-ending spreadsheets to manage the client’s EFT/check deposits. At that time, their reconciliation and posting process was a manual and labor - intensive task.

Within a two-week period, Big Data Healthcare was able to ingest all 835s from multiple sources, all deposit files from multiple bank accounts, and completely automate the 835 remittance to deposit reconciliation process. As a result, cash-posting has been greatly accelerated by implementing FUSE. 

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

Integrations:

Acute care EMR, Ambulatory EMR

EMR Integration & Relevant Hardware:

Recommended, but not required

EMRs Supported:

Epic, Cerner, Allscripts, Meditech, NextGen, athena, GE, eClinicalWorks, Other

Hardware Compatibility:

Desktop

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:

By automatically reconciling all electronic remittance advice (ERA/835) files with their correlating ACH/EFT or check deposits, our process eliminates the manual payment reconciliation and posting processes and makes everything uniform. Your team will be free from the manual spreadsheet matching, balancing, and countless hours correcting manual errors. What takes you hours, days, and sometimes weeks to complete – our software does in minutes.

Differentiators vs Competitors:

FUSE works seamlessly with any EHR, clearinghouse, or bank, and does NOT require any integration.

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 2016

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