Data processing: financial – business practice – management – or co – Automated electrical financial or business practice or... – Health care management
Reexamination Certificate
2008-03-18
2008-03-18
Zeender, F. (Department: 3627)
Data processing: financial, business practice, management, or co
Automated electrical financial or business practice or...
Health care management
C235S380000, C705S004000, C705S040000
Reexamination Certificate
active
10338965
ABSTRACT:
A medical payment system is described in which a provider of medical goods and/or services submits, via telephone or other communications medium, a request for payment amount determination for a patient encounter. A price determination system determines which of a plurality of fee schedules negotiated by the provider applies to the patient encounter and calculates, based at least in part on information entered by the provider, a payment amount for the encounter, which it communicates to at least the provider. In one embodiment, the provider receives the payment amount information while the patient is at the point of service. In one embodiment, the provider may use the system to submit a claim for payment by at least one responsible party.
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Baylor Dorothy M.
Darling Kimberly A.
First Access, Inc.
Frenel Vanel
Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP
Zeender F.
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