Cedar - Cedar | Better Billing Won’t Solve Healthcare’s Affordability Crisis Whitepaper

Cedar | Better Billing Won’t Solve Healthcare’s Affordability Crisis Whitepaper

Whitepaper

Unlock hidden dollars for healthcare

Stop chasing patients for money they don’t have. Start connecting them to resources they didn’t know existed—with financial preventive care.

Unlock hidden dollars for healthcare

Self-pay is rising—billing alone isn’t enough

For years, providers invested in better billing to manage the explosive growth of high-deductible health plans. Just as they adapted to this reality, a new crisis is already unfolding. This time, it’s not about billing. It’s about affordability.

This whitepaper explores:

Why almost half of patients are effectively self-pay and at high risk of falling into bad debt
How traditional assistance programs overlook one of the largest underserved populations
What revenue cycle teams can do to connect patients to billions in untapped financial resources
ACCORDING TO CEDAR’S RESEARCH

35% of patient dollars owed to hospitals now come from those without insurance coverage—up 8% in just one year

3 reasons to download this whitepaper

See what’s at stake
Calculate what growing self-pay could cost your health system
Navigate policy changes
Get ahead of potential Medicaid cuts and expiring ACA subsidies
Expand your safety net
Learn how to catch the patients your existing programs miss

Financial preventive care in 45 seconds

Align mission with margin in revenue cycle

Discover how financial preventive care can reduce patient out-of-pocket costs, recover more revenue, and prevent avoidable bad debt.