Data processing: financial – business practice – management – or co – Automated electrical financial or business practice or... – Insurance
Reexamination Certificate
2011-03-01
2011-03-01
Morgan, Robert W (Department: 3626)
Data processing: financial, business practice, management, or co
Automated electrical financial or business practice or...
Insurance
C705S002000, C705S322000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07899689
ABSTRACT:
A method and system for allowing a user to select a healthcare services package is disclosed where a central server generally receives personal information data from the user over the Internet regarding the user's preferences with respect to healthcare service providers and the user's sponsor, i.e., the party responsible for paying for all or part of the user's healthcare costs (such as an employer, an insurance company or the user himself). The server thereafter provides a list comprising a plurality of healthcare service providers and information regarding the healthcare service providers (e.g., specialty, rate, location, hospital affiliation, etc.) to the user for selection by the user of a healthcare services panel. Once the server has received the selected healthcare services panel from the user comprising at least one of the listed healthcare service providers, the server determines a healthcare services package and provides the determined healthcare services package to the user for selection by the user. The method and system also provides for registration with the server by healthcare service providers that are interested in being listed for selection by the user, wherein the healthcare service providers are paid according to their registered rates.
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Chadbourne & Parke LLP
Hanchuk Walter G.
Morgan Robert W
Porter Rachel L
Vivius, Inc.
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