Patent ID: 8103527
Filing Date: 2012-01-24
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. A method for determining a financial responsibility, comprising: accessing, by a software application operated by a party selected from a group consisting of a patient and a relative of the patient, a repository of a plurality of medical insurance providers, wherein the software application is executing on a hardware processor; searching, by the software application operated by the party, a plurality of entries in the repository based on a date; retrieving, in response to searching and by the software application operated by the party, a first entry in the repository identifying the date, a medical procedure performed on the patient, a cost of the medical procedure, and a first amount paid by a primary medical insurance policy for the medical procedure; retrieving, in response to searching and by the software application operated by the party, a second entry in the repository identifying the date, the medical procedure, and a second amount paid by a secondary medical insurance policy for the medical procedure; calculating, by the software application operated by the party, a financial responsibility of the party to a medical service provider for the medical procedure by subtracting the first amount paid by the primary medical insurance policy and the second amount paid by the secondary medical insurance policy from the cost of the medical procedure; and generating, by the software application operated by the party, a graphical user interface (GUI) comprising the financial responsibility of the party.