Cedar

🏆 Proud to be part of the most innovative digital health companies in the Digital Health New York Hall of Fame — for the second year in a row! See the full DHNY Hall of Fame and more in the 2026 New York Healthcare Innovation Report: https://lnkd.in/eNkGkWAq

There's a massive opportunity for AI to completely leapfrog in healthcare. In Kenya, mobile finance emerged because there was no traditional banking system to work around or through. Medicaid's infrastructure is so dated that it effectively functions like "no infrastructure" for the people trying to use it most - many of whom are mobile-first today. Great chat with Nikita Singareddy of Fortuna Health and Florian Otto of Cedar about what could emerge when you leapfrog the broken system entirely and build something better with AI. https://lnkd.in/gR3mzm9C

🎙️ New podcast: Making Healthcare Affordable for 80 Million Americans Cedar CEO and Co-Founder Florian Otto joined Andreessen Horowitz's Julie Yoo, alongside Nikita Singareddy, CEO and Co-Founder of Fortuna Health, for a timely conversation on why healthcare affordability is hitting a breaking point— and how AI can help reset the system. The discussion explores: • Why Medicaid infrastructure is overdue for a generational leap • How AI voice agents are transforming patient financial experiences • What it will take to move from fragmented, high-friction processes to a true “five-star” healthcare experience for every American • The impact of Cedar <> Fortuna's partnership to enhance patient affordability This is a candid look at how technology, policy, and operational change need to converge to make affordability real — not theoretical. 🎧 Listen to the full episode: https://lnkd.in/esD6abgP

What does 77% of patient AR have in common? When we analyzed patient-owed dollars across the typical health system, we found that they fall into two categories at the highest level: 23% are relatively easy to collect from — digitally engaged patients with solid insurance coverage. The other 77%? Harder to collect. And growing fast. A portion of that AR comes from large bills patients simply can't afford. But an even bigger driver is underinsurance. These are patients who technically have coverage, yet their deductibles and out-of-pocket costs exceed what they can realistically pay. The problem? Most collection approaches rely on either credit-based propensity scores or broad-stroked segmentation buckets. Both miss critical context. A patient who paid a $20 copay last month could still be labeled "high propensity" — even after losing coverage this month and receiving a four-figure bill. What actually determines collection likelihood ⬇️

Attending #ViVE2026 this month? Don't miss our Head of AI / ML, Sumayah Rahman, in conversation with Miranda Zhao of Sierra about building AI voice agents that patients actually trust ⬇️ https://lnkd.in/eNh4aCE9

Ever get a bill from a provider you didn’t know was part of your care? That’s the friction ApolloMD, a leading clinical practice management group in emergency medicine, partnered with Cedar to address. Five years later: ↑ 42% patient payments in year one Four straight years of record collections ↓ 27% call handle time with AI 87% patient satisfaction with billing Read the full transformation story: https://lnkd.in/e3-qbZV6

AI is easy — healthcare is the hard part. Organizations have more options than ever to develop custom solutions in-house, changing the build-vs-buy conversation overnight. Why not build internally? It's a reasonable question, one we expect to hear more often. To explore it — at least in the healthcare billing context — we turned to Georg Ulrich, an applied AI engineer at Cedar who has been deeply involved in building, evaluating, and refining Kora, our AI voice agent for patient billing support. If you're a revenue cycle leader contemplating whether to build or buy AI for your call center, read this first ➡️ https://lnkd.in/eMaJK3BQ

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