Patent ID: 8682689
Filing Date: 2014-03-25
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. A computerized patient financial advocacy system for identifying a funding source for an uninsured patient for a specific healthcare service which provides the most amount of money to a health care provider for the health care service, the system comprising: a computer programmed with rules defining a rules engine which generates standardized questions that are organized in a plurality of tiers including a highest tier that pays out the most amount of money to the health care provider for the health care service and a lowest tier that pays out the least amount of money to the health care provider for the health care service, each tier corresponding to one or more funding sources, said questions presented sequentially from the highest tier to the lowest tier until the funding source for the health care service is identified, said rules engine is further programmed to analyze patient responses to said standardized questions to identify the funding source that will pay out the most money to the health care provider for the health care service based upon said responses from said patient.