Data processing: financial – business practice – management – or co – Automated electrical financial or business practice or... – Health care management
Patent
1997-09-12
1999-06-22
MacDonald, Allen R.
Data processing: financial, business practice, management, or co
Automated electrical financial or business practice or...
Health care management
705 1, 705 2, 705 3, 705 4, G60F15900
Patent
active
059152419
ABSTRACT:
A system for encoding and encompassing healthcare provider billing, more particularly, a computer assisted network for encoding, documenting and processing claims for payment of specific procedures by alternative therapy providers, grouped geographically and by specialty. The system employs a computer accessing three main databases for identifying, encoding and calculation of average costs of provider services. A resulting Alternative Billing Code (ABC) is produced which can be compared and correlated with insurance industry standard codes. The ABC has the attribute of conveying multiple levels of information through alphanumeric characters. The ABC is an assembly of a series of terms and sub-terms from databases, namely Alternative Practice Type (APT), Standard Alternative Procedure Descriptions (SAPDs), Provider Data (PD) and RVU (Relative Value Unit) databases. Each provider specialty includes its own listing of treatments which are turned into RVUs, thus establishing a sequence of treatment fees and charges. The APT code and SAPD code are stored in a PD file including average claims costs of all providers as categorized by a predetermined grouping, which with the PD create the ABC as a comprehensive, single code representing all elements of treatment incident to a patient visit. Claims for payment are submitted and translated into an appropriate code for determination of payment under the present system.
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Jeanty Romain
Litman Richard C.
MacDonald Allen R.
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