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Cedar Patient Financial Engagement Platform Commentary
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Director

It’s not that I don't think Cedar's solution is good, but I also think there is a certain type of...

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Director

No one likes having to pay a lot to collect payments, but the good news is that we are collecting,...

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Director

Interestingly, Cedar includes us in their strategic planning, and they also enable us to participate...

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Director

When we originally signed our agreement with Cedar, they promised us a certain level of performance,...

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Director

One of the most notable things we did after going live with Cedar Patient Financial Engagement...

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Director

We were asked by our leadership to revalidate the ROI we get from Cedar's solution. There has never...

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CFO

Cedar is pretty expensive, but the payback has been solid.

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CFO

Cedar’s leadership team is terrific to work with. They're very innovative, and they're seemingly...

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CFO

We really have a lot of opportunity around insurance capture and improving the ability for our...

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Director

I would not recommend Cedar. They're really stating that they're a technology company, but we've...

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Director

We are extremely dissatisfied with Cedar’s collection rates. We're upside down with them right now....

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Director

We're still on flat file transfers with Cedar. There's no real-time interaction, and that is causing...

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Director

Cedar tries very hard with support. Unfortunately, we've had tickets since the day we went live that...

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VP/Other Executive

We just had a business review with Cedar, and the collections have improved year over year. However,...

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VP/Other Executive

Cedar is very good at content creation and communication. Their support people are excellent. They...

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VP/Other Executive

Cedar’s internal reporting is not as good as we would like it to be. They can get us a lot of the...

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VP/Other Executive

Costs are costs, and we always like to see those be a little bit lower, but overall, Cedar is very...

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VP/Other Executive

I normally can ping Cedar very quickly and get a bunch of questions answered. Also, their reporting...

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VP/Other Executive

Cedar is extremely innovative, and they ask customers to test things out and do previews. They are...

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VP/Other Executive

My manager does a lot of negotiations with Cedar, and my manager is very good at what they do, so...

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Director

I didn't want to buy Cedar Patient Financial Engagement Platform in the first place, but that was...

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Director

Cedar Patient Financial Engagement Platform has had a number of issues recently. Things have broken...

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Director

One of the biggest limitations of the solution is that implementing the platform requires us to turn...

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Director

Cedar's strengths are their ability to reach patients at the right time and provide multiple...

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Director

Cedar's weaknesses are that Cedar Patient Financial Engagement Platform does not cover all aspects...

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Director

We're in the process of winding down with Cedar, and we're going to run everything through our EHR...

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VP/Other Executive

Cedar does a great job and is very attentive. We've seen a huge reduction in complaints, and Cedar...

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VP/Other Executive

Cedar Patient Financial Engagement Platform is such a user-friendly system. It doesn't require much...

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VP/Other Executive

Cedar's support has slightly improved, though when I submit a support ticket, it takes some time for...

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VP/Other Executive

Cedar's products are generally expensive, but we pay for what we get in this space, so the price is...

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Director

If I had my personal preference, we wouldn’t have bought Cedar's solution in the first place....

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Director

Operationally, Cedar had a great partnership with us, but they still had a little bit of work to do...

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Director

I shared with Cedar how they should be supporting us as an organization, like the ticketing process,...

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Director

One of the reasons we are terminating our contract with Cedar is the cost. We pay a lot for them to...

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Director

In Cedar's platform, the data analytics could be improved by making them more self-service for the...

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Director

Cedar does really good data research on different populations, and they have effective ways of...

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Director

Cedar is very professional. They do really good executive-level summaries and presentations. I would...

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VP/Other Executive

We love Cedar. They have a great management team, great implementation services, and great service...

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VP/Other Executive

Cedar has a great vision. They are developing it at a pretty quick curve compared to the market. The...

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VP/Other Executive

The solution is expensive. It works well for us, but there are more competitive products on the...

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Director

Integration with our EHR has been an ongoing challenge, leading to operational inefficiencies,...

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Director

Epic has now achieved parity with Cedar on several fronts, particularly payment-plan initiation and...

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Director

Cedar's system has proven to be highly effective at engaging patients on more difficult-to-collect...

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Director

Our first-year uplift and ROI with Cedar's system were very strong, but the performance has been...

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Director

Cedar has meaningfully improved the quality of their customer-facing teams. At the same time, the...

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VP/Other Executive

Cedar is by far the best vendor for patient financial engagement. They are definitely the most...

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VP/Other Executive

We have had a few issues with Cedar recently, and we are trying to overcome those. Cedar is solid,...

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VP/Other Executive

Cedar continually changes their products. We have seen an improvement in our collections per case...

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VP/Other Executive

Cedar's charges are more than fair. The vendor will do what we need them to quickly, and they will...

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VP/Other Executive

We are leaving Cedar Patient Financial Engagement Platform because of its cost structure; Cedar's...

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VP/Other Executive

Cedar has a pretty robust training solution. They do train the trainer, but they also have a very...

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VP/Other Executive

Cedar takes much longer to deliver than a lot of vendors, but when they do deliver, whatever they...

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VP/Other Executive

Cedar could do better on turnaround time for customer support. I do love the cool dashboard where we...

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VP/Other Executive

Cedar’s cost structure uses one-price collection fees, unlike one of our other vendors’ tier...

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CEO/President

The product's capabilities are great. Also, the product is inexpensive, and we get a lot of return...

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CEO/President

I recommend Cedar all the time. Cedar has been great. They are fantastic with training and...

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Director

I have never heard any complaints about the implementation. From a training standpoint for upgrades,...

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Director

I do wish the platform integrated a little better with our EHR. Often, our patients have multiple...

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Director

We have never missed a deadline with Cedar. They adapt very well to changes we request, so they do...

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Director

We have multiple users for this solution in patient financial services, posting, and credit balance....

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Director

Our team is very aggressive when it comes to finances, and the vendor works very well with what our...

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Director

The reporting is sometimes not as robust as we would like it to be. When we get our annual audit,...

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VP/Other Executive

I absolutely hate Cedar. Their platform always breaks down, and it is always inaccurate. We...

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VP/Other Executive

Cedar doesn't deliver technology, and we don't have a choice. The vendor isn't building things that...

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VP/Other Executive

We have heard from patients that they need more details, so we are going to start printing all of...

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VP/Other Executive

We have had to move away from some systems that we liked because Cedar demanded that we use their...

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Director

Cedar doesn’t do so well in the support space. They can report outages and support tickets via...

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Director

Cedar’s support team is better than Cedar Patient Financial Engagement Platform's performance. They...

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Director

Cedar Patient Financial Engagement Platform is easy to understand, but it is sometimes difficult to...

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Director

For outages or certain issues, Cedar reaches out and lets us know if there is something down or not...

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Director

We have had some ups and downs with Cedar Patient Financial Engagement Platform's collection rates,...

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Director

There is no ongoing training from Cedar, but if we reach out with questions, they will answer them....

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Director

We brought Cedar Patient Financial Engagement Platform on with the understanding that it was a...

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Manager

Cedar has a new team on board that I feel is really making strides, and I'm enjoying working with...

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Manager

Cedar will say that they see our problem and that they don't necessarily know how to fix it. Cedar...

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Manager

Cedar tries to stay up-to-date with what is going on. Cedar avails us, but they don't alert me...

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Manager

With the portal in Cedar's platform, where patients make their payments and send information back to...

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CFO

On the cost side, Cedar's platform is pretty expensive. It is a percentage of our cash collection....

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CFO

Cedar has an excellent product. We are actually looking at exploring ways of getting more deeply...

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CFO

Cedar is very good to work with, but because their system is a separate solution for a very defined...

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VP/Other Executive

There is one scenario where I would consider recommending Cedar's system. If an organization is on a...

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VP/Other Executive

Cedar Patient Financial Engagement Platform offers great tools on the patient-facing side, but the...

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VP/Other Executive

The Cedar implementation team was fragmented. We had challenges and still don't have everything...

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VP/Other Executive

Cedar has a vision. They really are forward thinking, and they want to meet with me a lot. The...

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VP/Other Executive

We pay too much for Cedar Patient Financial Engagement Platform. It is ridiculously expensive. Cedar...

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VP/Other Executive

The patient-facing tools in Cedar Patient Financial Engagement Platform are pretty smooth and good,...

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VP/Other Executive

When problems arise, Cedar takes weeks to resolve them. My team discovers problems and then calls...

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