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Description

Product Description:

Payers can have dozens of fee schedules that contain thousands of codes. Finding the right fee schedule can be a challenge and navigating the document can also prove time-consuming. 

   

Our Government Fee Schedule tool provides you access to fee schedules in a centralized location.

  

Its interactive interface streamlines analysis and enables data export, empowering healthcare providers to make informed financial decisions and optimize revenue.

  

https://www.policyreporter.com/solutions/fee-schedule-lookup/

About Policy Reporter:

Empower your teams with Policy Reporter's payer documents library, change alerts, and reserach tools. 

Healthcare providers face numerous challenges in navigating the complex U.S. healthcare system:​

  • Keeping up with evolving medical necessity criteria, coverage policies, and billing rules​
  • Understanding and complying with diverse payer policies and prior authorization across commercial and government plans​
  • Efficiently managing revenue cycle processes in a constantly changing reimbursement landscape​
  • Ensuring patient access to necessary care while meeting payer requirements​
  • Minimizing claim denials and optimizing reimbursement​

This causes challenges such as: ​

  • Interpreting and applying complex payer policies consistently across the organization​
  • Reducing administrative burden associated with prior authorizations and claim appeals​
  • Staying current with frequent policy changes that impact reimbursement and patient care​
  • Balancing compliance requirements with operational efficiency​
  • Maximizing revenue while ensuring appropriate utilization of healthcare services​

Policy Reporter empowers healthcare providers to address these challenges by:​

  • Delivering analyst-verified alerts for tracking policy changes customize to your specialties and payer mix​
  • Simplifying access to up-to-date coverage criteria, prior authorization and reimbursement rules​
  • Offering comprehensive research capabilities to comply with key contract and claims rules​
  • Supporting efficient revenue cycle management with targeted insights and tools​

Our solutions reduce administrative burden, streamline reimbursement-related research, and empower your entire team to make informed decisions that improve patient care and financial performance.​​

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:

Revenue Integrity Team:

Challenge: Identifying discrepancies in reimbursement rates across different payers.

Use Case: Your revenue integrity team can use the Fee Schedule Lookup Tool to quickly compare reimbursement rates for specific codes across payers, including government fee schedules. This helps identify underpayments and supports negotiations for fair reimbursement rates.

  

Contract Management Team:

Challenge: Negotiating favorable reimbursement rates with commercial payers.

Use Case: Your contract management team can leverage the tool to compile reimbursement data for specific codes and payers, providing a clear comparison of rates. This data can be exported and used as a reference during contract negotiations to secure better terms.

  

Billing & Coding Teams:

 

Challenge: Ensuring claims are submitted with accurate and compliant reimbursement rates.

Use Case: Your billing and coding teams can search the Fee Schedule Lookup Tool by specific codes to verify the correct reimbursement rate for each payer before submitting claims. This helps ensure accurate billing and reduces the likelihood of payment discrepancies.

  

Physician Advisors & Utilization Review Team:

Challenge: Evaluating the financial impact of clinical decisions based on payer reimbursement rates.

Use Case: Your physician advisors can use the tool to review and compare reimbursement rates for different procedures across payers. This information can guide clinical decision-making and support cost-effective care planning while maintaining alignment with payer policies.

  

Compliance Officers:

Challenge: Staying compliant with payer-specific fee schedule updates and avoiding penalties.

Use Case: Your compliance officers can utilize the Fee Schedule Lookup Tool to monitor updates to government fee schedules and commercial payer rates. By accessing the latest data, they can proactively adjust internal billing practices and policies to ensure compliance.

 

Finance Department:

Challenge: Forecasting revenue based on current and projected reimbursement rates.

Use Case: Your finance department can export fee schedule data for analysis, helping to project revenue based on expected reimbursement rates. This data can be used to build more accurate financial models and budget forecasts.

Prior Authorization Team:

Challenge: Determining cost-effectiveness of procedures based on payer reimbursement rates.

Use Case: Your prior authorization team can use the tool to quickly look up the expected reimbursement rates for procedures requiring authorization. This information helps in assessing the financial viability of requested treatments and aids in the approval process.

  

Case Management & Patient Advocacy:

Challenge: Helping patients understand out-of-pocket costs and insurance coverage.

Use Case: Your case managers can access reimbursement rate information for specific codes and payers, giving them the data needed to estimate patient financial responsibility. This helps provide more accurate cost estimates and supports patient education on coverage.

Pharmacy Team:

Challenge: Understanding reimbursement rates for medications and procedures tied to pharmacy services.

Use Case: Your pharmacy team can search the Fee Schedule Lookup Tool for specific codes related to medications or infusion services. This allows them to compare payer reimbursement rates and adjust pricing strategies or inventory decisions accordingly.

 

Executives & Leadership:

 

Challenge: Gaining insight into payer reimbursement trends to guide strategic decisions.

Use Case: Your executive team can use the Fee Schedule Lookup Tool to analyze trends in reimbursement rates across key payers. The interactive format and exportable data provide actionable insights that inform strategic planning, contract negotiations, and financial decision-making.

Pediatric use cases:

Same use cases as listed above. 

Users:
  • Revenue Integrity Team
  • Contract Management Team
  • Billing & Coding Teams
  • Physician Advisors & Utilization Review Team
  • Compliance Officers
  • Finance Department
  • Prior Authorization Team
  • Case Management & Patient Advocacy
  • Pharmacy Team
  • Executives & Leadership
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:

Not applicable

EMR Integration & Relevant Hardware:

Not applicable

EMRs Supported:

None provided

Hardware Compatibility:

Not applicable

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:

There is no need to have your IT team plan out a complex EHR integration. Access Fee Schedule Lookup Tool via the easy-to-use portal. 

Our team will quickly set up individual user access. 

Differentiators vs Competitors:

The Most Comprehensive Database

Access the most complete database of government fee schedules compiled in an easy-to-use tool. 

Amazing Customer Support

Our team will work to ensure you get the most out of your Policy Reporter subscription. We strive to be more than a vendor - we want to be your partner in improving patient access. 

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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