Systems and methods for processing claims in real-time

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2008-05-06

2008-05-06

Trammell, James P. (Department: 3694)

Data processing: financial, business practice, management, or co

Business processing using cryptography

Secure transaction

C705S004000, C380S241000

Reexamination Certificate

active

07370018

ABSTRACT:
Claim processing system providing an interface to permit pharmacy and medical management systems to use the Internet to transmit third-party insurance claims on a claim-by-claim basis in real-time or near-real-time to one or more claim servers that receive insurance claim requests over the Internet in an encrypted form. The one or more claim servers decrypt the claim requests and forward them to a health network application which facilitates the submission of the claims to insurance payers and the response of the insurance payers to the requests. Payer responses are received by the claim servers, encrypted and forwarded to the pharmacy and medical management systems in real-time or near real-time.

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