Cedar API
Cedar is software that powers the patient financial experience for healthcare providers. It centralizes digital statements, payment plans, price estimates, insurance capture, and payment acceptance so patients can understand and resolve their bills. With an unofficial API, you coul
What is Cedar?
Cedar is a patient financial engagement platform used by provider organizations and health systems to deliver clear digital billing, flexible payment options, price transparency, and pre-visit financial clearance. Cedar connects to EHRs and revenue cycle systems to generate patient-friendly statements, collect payments (card/ACH/HSA), offer payment plans and financial assistance workflows, and guide patients through pre-visit steps like insurance capture and estimate review.
Core product areas include:
- Patient billing and payments (digital statements, payment acceptance, receipts)
- Price estimates and pre-visit financial engagement (coverage capture, financial clearance)
- Insurance management (primary/secondary policy updates, eligibility flags)
- Payment plans and financial assistance workflows
- Patient communications and self-service portals
- Analytics and segmentation (propensity-to-pay, outreach optimization)
Common data entities:
- Patients/Guarantors (demographics, contact preferences)
- Statements/Invoices (balance due, due date, itemized charges)
- Encounters/Visits (service dates, CPT/HCPCS codes, departments)
- Payments (amounts, methods, receipts, applied statements)
- Payment Methods (tokenized card, ACH, HSA)
- Payment Plans (terms, installment schedules, status)
- Price Estimates (services, expected patient responsibility, coverage)
- Insurance Coverage (payer, member IDs, eligibility indicators)
The Cedar Integration Challenge
Providers rely on Cedar daily, but turning portal-based patient financial workflows into automated pipelines is hard:
- Strong enterprise security: SSO/MFA, patient-link tokens, and network controls complicate headless automation
- Portal-first delivery: Statements, payments, and estimate flows live in web apps with limited public APIs
- Payment compliance: Tokenization, PCI considerations, and audit trails must be enforced for automated payments
- EHR/RCM interfaces: Batch timing windows and reconciliation constraints require careful orchestration
- Personalization: Segmented outreach and dynamic offers (e.g., payment plans) vary by patient and provider policy
How Supergood Creates Cedar APIs
Supergood reverse-engineers authenticated browser flows, batch interfaces, and network interactions to deliver a resilient API endpoint layer.
- Handles username/password, SSO/OAuth, and MFA (SMS, email, TOTP) securely
- Maintains session continuity with automated refresh and change detection
- Normalizes patient, statement, payment, and estimate objects across health systems
- Aligns with customer entitlements and licensing constraints to ensure compliant access
- Bridges batch exports and signed artifact retrieval where applicable (e.g., PDFs, receipts)
Getting Started
- Schedule Integration Assessment
Book a 30-minute session to confirm your Cedar product mix, licensing, and authentication model.
- Supergood Builds and Validates Your API
We deliver a hardened Cedar adapter tailored to your workflows and entitlements.
- Deploy with Monitoring
Go live with continuous monitoring and automatic adjustments as Cedar evolves.
API Endpoints
Authentication
/sessionsEstablish a session using credentials. Supergood manages MFA (SMS, email, TOTP) and SSO/OAuth when enabled. Returns a short-lived auth token maintained by the platform.
Patients
/patientsRetrieve patient/guarantor profiles with balances and coverage indicators. Use this to populate billing dashboards and route outreach.
Statements
/statementsRetrieve current and historical statements with itemized charges, balances, and plan eligibility. Use this to present bills and compute payment distributions.
Payments
/paymentsPost a payment against one or more Cedar statements. Supports tokenized card/ACH/HSA methods and returns receipt artifacts.
Use Cases
EHR-to-Billing Synchronization
- Pull patient balances and statement details to power in-app billing - Maintain a single source of truth for demographics and coverage metadata - Surface accurate line items and charge descriptions from Cedar alongside EHR encounter context
Pre-Visit Estimates and Financial Clearance
- Retrieve price estimates and coverage indicators before scheduling - Verify insurance and capture missing policy details - Present upfront costs and consent to improve collection rates
Payment Acceptance and Plan Enrollment
- Post card/ACH/HSA payments directly against Cedar statements - Offer payment plans based on provider rules and patient eligibility - Generate receipts and keep EHR/RCM ledgers reconciled
Patient Engagement and Collections
- Drive segmented outreach based on propensity-to-pay - Monitor payment statuses and follow up on past-due balances - Centralize communications and provide self-service billing portals
Audit and Compliance
- Export statement PDFs, itemized charge lists, and payment receipts - Maintain machine-readable audit logs of payments and plan actions - Honor PCI and HIPAA requirements throughout billing workflows
Technical Specifications
Authentication
Username/password with MFA (SMS, email, TOTP) and SSO/OAuth where enabled; supports service accounts or customer-managed credentials
Response format
JSON with consistent resource schemas and pagination
Rate limits
Tuned for enterprise throughput while honoring licensing and usage controls
Session management
Automatic reauth and cookie/session rotation with health checks
Data freshness
Near real-time retrieval of statements, payments, and estimate artifacts
Security
Encrypted transport, scoped tokens, and audit logging; respects Cedar entitlements, HIPAA and PCI constraints
Webhooks
Optional asynchronous delivery for statement updates, payment postings, and plan status changes
Latency
Sub-second responses for list/detail queries under normal load
Throughput
Designed for high-volume billing and payment posting pipelines
Reliability
Retry logic, backoff, and idempotency keys minimize duplicate actions
Adaptation
Continuous monitoring for UI/API changes with rapid adapter updates
Frequently asked questions
Supergood supports workflows across commonly used Cedar modules (e.g., Cedar Pay and Cedar Pre), subject to your licensing and entitlements. We scope coverage (statements, payments, estimates, plan enrollment) during integration assessment.
We support username/password + MFA (SMS, email, TOTP) and can operate behind SSO/OAuth where enabled. For payments, we use tokenized methods provided by Cedar and maintain PCI-conscious flows, returning receipts and applied distributions programmatically.
Yes. We can expose endpoints to create plan enrollments (terms, installment schedules) and retrieve estimates with coverage indicators and expected patient responsibility. Availability depends on your Cedar configuration and policies.