Data processing: financial – business practice – management – or co – Automated electrical financial or business practice or... – Health care management
Patent
1996-04-30
1999-07-27
MacDonald, Allen R.
Data processing: financial, business practice, management, or co
Automated electrical financial or business practice or...
Health care management
705 3, 705 4, 705 40, 283117, 283 68, 283 69, 283 78, B42D 1500, G06F 1530, G06F 700, G06F15900
Patent
active
059307595
ABSTRACT:
A system or network for assembling, filing and processing health care data transactions and insurance claims made by patients pursuant to health care policies issued to the patients by insurance companies or other carriers for service provided to the patients at health care facilities. The network comprises a multitude of participating patients, a multitude of health care facilities, and a plurality of insurance companies or other carriers. Each of the patients has a personal data file including a set of patient related data encoded in a machine readable format, and each of the health care facilities has a telecommunications unit and a file reader to read the data on the personal data files and to transmit the patient related data to the telecommunications unit at the facility. The network further includes a central claims processing unit connected to the telecommunications units of the health care facilities to receive the electronic claim forms from those facilities and to adjudicate those claims.
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Jones Wayne E.
Moore James G.
Kanof Pedro R.
MacDonald Allen R.
Optimum Inc.
Symbol Technologies Inc.
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