Data processing: financial – business practice – management – or co – Automated electrical financial or business practice or... – Insurance
Reexamination Certificate
2004-12-06
2011-12-13
Apple, Kirsten (Department: 3694)
Data processing: financial, business practice, management, or co
Automated electrical financial or business practice or...
Insurance
C705S001100, C705S322000
Reexamination Certificate
active
08078481
ABSTRACT:
An automated benefit administration system and methods of use and doing business. The full system includes a wide range of features including application of business rules to enrollment, eligibility, and maintenance data input, making of business decisions based on the specific data entered, and issuing of notices based on business rule discrepancies including notices to third parties when deemed appropriate. The full system also is secure while providing remote access, including through the Internet, limits access based on user hierarchy, allows user customization of various features including communications vehicles (e-mail, letter correspondence, or facsimile) and of the format of certain communications, provides automatic enrollment in Cobra without re-entry of beneficiary data, accomplishes various types of financial reconciliation, accommodates differing organizational structures and groupings of entities, provides business rule over-ride capability for certain users, and provides robust information about carriers and their services.
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Steinbarth John
Steinbarth Patricia
Apple Kirsten
Klarquist & Sparkman, LLP
Trotter Scott
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