Cedar
Cedar is an enterprise patient financial engagement platform that unifies billing, statements, cost estimates, payments, and AI-driven outreach for health systems and large provider groups.
AI patient billing
Cedar vs Reclaimly
An AI agent purpose-built for mid-market practices — Reclaimly works each balance to resolution on the EHR you already use, set up by our team.
Looking for a Cedar alternative? Reclaimly is the AI agent built for mid-market practices that understands each balance and makes proactive outbound calls to work it to payment on the EHR you already use.
Cedar is an enterprise-grade patient financial platform with AI-personalized billing and voice (Kora); Reclaimly is an AI agent purpose-built for mid-market practices and multi-site groups that works each balance to payment on the EHR you already use — with setup run by our team, live in under two weeks.
The short version
What each one is
Reclaimly
AI patient billing is software that uses AI agents to manage every patient balance from visit to payment — explaining charges, answering questions, following up by text, email, and phone, and taking the calls your team used to field — so providers collect more of what patients owe, with a person stepping in only for the cases that need one.
Head to head
Cedar vs Reclaimly, side by side
A fair, line-by-line comparison — what Cedar does, and where Reclaimly does the work end to end.
What it is
CedarEnterprise patient payments & financial engagement platform
ReclaimlyEnd-to-end AI agent that works each balance from visit to payment
How balances get worked
CedarStatements, digital bills, and AI-personalized outreach across channels
ReclaimlyAI agents follow up per balance — timing, channel, and tone chosen for each patient
AI phone calls
CedarConversational AI voice agent (Kora) — inbound call handling plus outbound collections calling.
ReclaimlyProactive outbound and inbound two-way AI calls that resolve each balance — explain charges, handle pushback, set up a plan, send a secure link on the call.
Plain-language explanations
CedarClear bill presentation, cost estimates, and an AI bill explainer
ReclaimlyExplains every charge in plain language and answers questions in the conversation
Visibility & control
CedarDashboards and enterprise reporting
ReclaimlyEvery balance and interaction visible in real time; you set the rules
Built for
CedarHealth systems, hospitals, and large provider groups
ReclaimlyMid-market practices and multi-site groups
Reflects publicly available information about Cedar as of July 2026; product capabilities change — see Cedar’s site for current details. We only claim outcomes for Reclaimly as percentages and time windows.
Where Reclaimly wins
Execution and transparency — without the trade-off
Most options make you choose: do the work but lose visibility, or stay in control but do it all yourself. Reclaimly does the work autonomously and stays fully visible — and it's live in under two weeks.
Execution →Transparency →
Cedar
Reclaimly
Reclaimly lands where most options can't — high execution and full transparency at once.
Execution, not just messages
An autonomous AI agent does the work — understands each balance and follows through. Not another portal, not a fixed sequence.
Full transparency
Every balance and interaction is visible in real time. You set the rules and keep the patient relationship — never opaque.
Live in under two weeks
Connects to the EHR you already use and our team runs the setup — no new system for staff to learn.
Being fair
When Cedar makes sense
Cedar is a strong fit for large hospitals and health systems that want a consumer-grade billing and payments front-end across millions of statements. If you are standardizing the digital payment experience at enterprise scale, Cedar is built for exactly that.
What Cedar is good at
- A polished, consumer-grade patient payment experience
- Pre-service cost estimates and price transparency at scale
- Enterprise-grade integrations, security, and reporting
- Proven across large hospitals and health systems
When you want that work done autonomously — with full visibility, and live in under two weeks — that's where Reclaimly comes in.
By the numbers
The outcome practices see with Reclaimly
Results vary by practice and patient mix — but the pattern is consistent. We report percentages and time windows only, never a single guaranteed figure.
- +20–100%more collected from patientsdepending on specialty and current RCM practices
- < 2 weeksaverage time to collectdown from roughly 40 days of manual follow-up
- 97%+of patient cases handled without a humanyour team steps in only for disputes and edge cases
Keep comparing
Connects directly to the EHR you already use — including Epic, athenahealth, and eClinicalWorks.
FAQ
Cedar vs Reclaimly — questions
Yes. Reclaimly is an AI-native Cedar alternative for mid-market practices and multi-site groups that want each balance worked end-to-end. Cedar delivers an AI-personalized billing and payment experience for health systems; Reclaimly’s AI agents proactively follow up on each balance across call, text, email, and statements from visit to payment, on the EHR you already use, and go live in under two weeks.
Cedar is an enterprise patient financial engagement platform: it delivers AI-personalized billing, estimates, and payment options across digital and voice channels, including conversational AI (Kora). Reclaimly is an end-to-end AI agent purpose-built for mid-market practices: it understands each balance and does the work of collecting it — explaining charges in plain language, choosing the right timing and channel per patient, and making proactive outbound billing calls — while you keep full real-time visibility. We set it up on your existing EHR, and most groups are live in under two weeks.
For mid-market practices and multi-site groups, Reclaimly is usually the better fit: it works each balance autonomously on the EHR you already use, and setup is on us — live inside two weeks. Cedar is an enterprise-grade platform widely deployed across large health systems and provider groups. We report outcomes as percentages and time windows: +20–100% more collected from patients, depending on specialty and current RCM practices.
Yes. Reclaimly connects directly to your EHR — Epic, athenahealth, eClinicalWorks, NextGen, Tebra, AdvancedMD, CharmHealth, CollaborateMD, and any other system — and we run the setup end-to-end. It augments your existing systems rather than replacing them, so there is no portal and no manual uploads for your staff.
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