Patent ID: 8527292
Filing Date: 2013-09-03
Classification: G06Q,G16H

Abstract:
1. A method for allowing a given patient to manage health care expenses using a computer-implemented medical expense data analysis service, comprising: receiving health care provider statements from multiple health care providers and explanation of benefits documents from multiple insurance providers after patient responsibilities have been determined by the multiple health care providers and the multiple insurance providers; with the computer-implemented medical expense data analysis service, checking medical expense data for the given patient that is associated with multiple insurance providers and multiple health care providers to detect billing and coverage errors, wherein the billing and coverage errors include mistakes and inconsistencies in the health care provider statements and the insurance provider explanation of benefits documents, and wherein checking the medical expense data comprises automatically discovering patterns and relationships in the medical expense data with data mining techniques; maintaining at least one patient database containing the patient medical expense data and data on detected billing and coverage errors; allowing the given patient to query the patient database; and alerting the given patient to the identified billing and coverage errors.