Data processing: financial – business practice – management – or co – Automated electrical financial or business practice or... – Health care management
Reexamination Certificate
2011-08-23
2011-08-23
Gilligan, Luke (Department: 3626)
Data processing: financial, business practice, management, or co
Automated electrical financial or business practice or...
Health care management
C705S003000
Reexamination Certificate
active
08005687
ABSTRACT:
Various embodiments for estimating a cost of a medical procedure. In one example, a method may include the operations of averaging data from various geographies of the amount billed to form a national average amount billed for the medical procedure; associating the average amount billed with one or more claim data items from a health plan; grouping the claim data items from the health plan using episode classes; calculating an average amount billed for each episode class; and adjusting the average amount billed for each episode class by a geographic adjustment factor to form an estimated cost of the medical procedure.
REFERENCES:
patent: 5845254 (1998-12-01), Lockwood et al.
patent: 5915241 (1999-06-01), Giannini
patent: 6061657 (2000-05-01), Whiting-O'Keefe
patent: 7505916 (2009-03-01), Adrian et al.
patent: 2002/0147617 (2002-10-01), Schoenbaum et al.
AHRQ (Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality), Ambulatory Surgery in U.S. Hospitals, 2003, www.ahrq.gov, www.ahrq.gov/data/hcup/factbk9/factbk9e.htm.
Lynn Thomas E.
Pederson Derek C.
Chng Joy
Dorsey & Whitney LLP
Gilligan Luke
Ingenix Inc.
Padmanabhan Devan V.
LandOfFree
System, method and computer program product for estimating... does not yet have a rating. At this time, there are no reviews or comments for this patent.
If you have personal experience with System, method and computer program product for estimating..., we encourage you to share that experience with our LandOfFree.com community. Your opinion is very important and System, method and computer program product for estimating... will most certainly appreciate the feedback.
Profile ID: LFUS-PAI-O-2655673