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Client types
Awards
Differentiators
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Company details

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Product Description:
MedData uses Predictive Patient Scoring and Segmenting Technology as an important component of our Patient Responsibility/Early Out Services. With this technology, patient data is scored and segmented with predictive analytics to determine propensity to pay. Highly accurate results inform proactive patient outreach with personalized financial data that simplifies the process and drives faster account resolution. This technology ensures that monthly payment plans are tailored specifically to the patient’s financial situation to encourage best outcomes. MedData’s Patient Responsibility/Early Out Services take a patient-focused approach to self-pay account resolution, making it simple and easy for patients to pay with many different means to resolve their bills. We also make the overall process as fast and convenient as possible by offering patients a variety of methods to get involved – phone calls, texting, self-service, payment portal – and we’re there if they do need help. Our philosophy of patient education and compassionate customer service is a key component to our success. We focus on helping patients understand the post-clinical process by providing education on their statement, their balance, and their insurance options. Our dedicated, U.S.-based patient service center has hundreds of Patient Service Representatives (PSRs) with expansion capacity to scale with our clients’ business and we have bi-lingual staff in our call center and translation support for multiple languages. We have a First Call Resolution rate that consistently exceeds 90%. The first time we speak with a patient, we do whatever we can to solve their issue right then. That could mean taking payment in full, setting up a payment arrangement, or calling an insurance company together to help walk the patient through what’s taken place. Our operations and patient pay management system empowers PSRs to have the right information at the right time to customize each call per client and patient. MedData’s PSRs are trained to handle all types of accounts to ensure increased call volume scenarios are handled well within our aggressive quality control requirements. Patients can be overwhelmed by multiple hard-to-understand bills from different sources. We consolidate their bills and provide an intuitive statement to eliminate confusion and make it easy to understand what they owe. Our statements are designed to incorporate client branding and color coded according to urgency – green for timely statements, orange for late statements, and red for statements close to being sent to collections. Our propensity to pay tool uses hundreds of demographic data points to identify patients where additional communication and education can help resolve accounts sooner, as well as what format to use – hard copy statement, phone call, text, etc. The scoring system also can be built to fit contractual recommendations from the client. This technology ensures that monthly payment plans are tailored specifically to patient’s financial situation to encourage best outcomes, and it does not impact the patient’s credit report. With our patient texting technology, you can send first statements directly to patients’ smartphones. It’s much faster than mailing a paper statement and requires less effort for patients to respond, which helps drives patient engagement and improve collections. Our online payment portal is designed to streamline patient balance reimbursements and give patients greater insight into the medical billing process. It consolidates all payments and balances into an easy-to-read dashboard. Our technology also lets providers view all accounts associated with a guarantor, receive documentation, and accept payments in real time. We connect and engage with patients throughout the entire patient financial life cycle, treating them with dignity and respect, and providing opportunity for dialogue and to learn more all along the way.
About MedData:

MedData has been a tenured and trusted healthcare revenue cycle management services provider for more than 40 years, delivering technology-enabled and patient-focused RCM solutions, including Eligibility & Disability, Accounts Receivable Services (ARS), Injury Accounts (Workers’ Comp, Auto, etc.), Veterans Administration, Patient Responsibility/Early Out, COB Denials, and Out-of-State Eligibility. MedData has patient advocates from coast to coast and experience with hospitals and health systems of all types – large to small, rural to urban, nonprofit to for-profit – giving the company a nationwide presence with a local feel that’s scalable to any volume. Click the "Files" tab for downloadable content with more information about our organization.

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

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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

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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Patient Responsibility White Paper - MedData
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Founded in 1980

Founded in 2016

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