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Use cases
EHR integrations
Client types
Awards
Differentiators
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Company details

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Description

Product Description:

Compliance is an increasingly complex and costly task. Our Payer Compliance Dashboard provides payer rule transparency for stakeholders across the treatment continuum. This proactive approach to compliance allows your organization to gain cost efficiency through reductions in costly claims denials, improved contract and utilization management, and minimization of patient care delays. 

  • Curated dashboard with pre-defined answers to your key questions 
  • Customized to your payer list and priorities 
  • Export data for offline use 
  • Filter and export by Payer, Plan Type, and State 
  • View insightful visualizations of key data 
  • Policy changes are tracked by our team and highlighted within the dashboard 
  • Maintain high level of payment integrity with compliance to timely filing, recoupment, appeals, review deadlines, and more payment integrity with compliance to timely filing, recoupment, appeals, review deadlines, and more 
  • Compare rules across payers to identify outliers  
  • Get up to speed on new payers quickly  
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:

Denials Management Team:

Challenge: High volume of claim denials due to non-compliance with frequently changing payer policies.

Use Case: Your denials management team can utilize the Payer Compliance Dashboard to access a curated view of payer claim submission requirements. By reviewing historical and active payer policies, your team can quickly identify reasons for claim denials and implement corrective measures, reducing denial rates and associated costs.

  

Contract Management Team:

Challenge: Navigating complex claims payment rules during payer contract negotiations.

Use Case: Your contract managers can leverage the Payer Compliance Dashboard to access detailed information on payer-specific claim requirements, including Medicare and Medicaid rules. With this data, your team can negotiate better contract terms by demonstrating an understanding of complex payment rules and advocating for equitable payment structures.

 

Physician Advisors & Utilization Review Team:

Challenge: Aligning clinical decisions with payer policies to avoid unnecessary peer-to-peer reviews and denials.

Use Case: Your physician advisors can use the Payer Compliance Dashboard to access up-to-date peer-to-peer guidelines and payer requirements. This helps align clinical practices with payer expectations, reducing the need for time-consuming appeals and facilitating smoother approval processes.

  

Billing & Coding Team:

Challenge: Ensuring claims are submitted accurately and in compliance with the latest payer policies to prevent rejections.

Use Case: Your billing and coding teams can use the Payer Compliance Dashboard to quickly reference payer-specific guidelines for coding and submission requirements. The tool's proactive alerting feature notifies your team of policy changes, helping them stay compliant and reducing the incidence of claim rejections.

  

Revenue Cycle Management Team:

Challenge: Managing the financial impact of claim denials and optimizing reimbursement processes.

Use Case: Your revenue cycle management team can use the Payer Compliance Dashboard to track updates in payer policies and compliance rules, enabling them to anticipate changes that could affect reimbursement. By staying informed and adjusting workflows accordingly, your team can reduce the administrative burden of claim resubmissions and optimize revenue recovery.

 

Compliance Officers:

Challenge: Keeping up with the frequent changes in payer policies to maintain compliance and mitigate audit risk.

Use Case: Your compliance officers can leverage the Payer Compliance Dashboard to monitor changes in payer rules and access historical versions of policies. This centralized and comprehensive view helps ensure that your organization remains compliant with the latest requirements and minimizes exposure to compliance risks.

  

Practice Managers:

Challenge: Efficiently managing payer requirements across multiple locations and departments.

Use Case: Your practice managers can utilize the Payer Compliance Dashboard’s easy-to-use interface to access up-to-date payer documents and requirements. This helps streamline the communication of policy changes across departments, ensuring that all teams are informed and can adapt quickly.

  

Finance & Executive Leadership:

Challenge: Reducing financial losses from claim denials and optimizing operational efficiency.

Use Case: Your finance and executive teams can use insights from the Payer Compliance Dashboard to understand trends in denials and identify areas where payer policy changes are impacting revenue. This data supports strategic decision-making and helps prioritize initiatives that will enhance the financial performance of the organization.

Pediatric use cases:

The same use cases can be applied to users focused on the pediatric population. 

Users:
  • Denials Management Team
  • Contract Management Team
  • Physician Advisors & Utilization Review Team
  • Billing & Coding Team
  • Revenue Cycle Management Team
  • Compliance Officers
  • Practice Managers
  • Finance & Executive 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:

None provided

EMR Integration & Relevant Hardware:

None provided

EMRs Supported:

None provided

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:

Easy setup!

There is no need to have your IT team plan out a complex EHR integration. Access the Payer Compliance Dashboard via our easy-to-use portal. Export the dashboard data to work offline.  

Our team will quickly set up individual user access to your dashboard. 

Differentiators vs Competitors:

The Most Comprehensive Database:

Access the most complete database of live and historical medical policies and related documents on the market. 

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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