Patent ID: 8185408
Filing Date: 2012-05-22
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. A computer program product stored on a non-transitory computer-readable medium, the computer program product having computer-executable code instructions which are executable on a computer server to determine eligibility of a patient to receive health care financial assistance, the computer-executable code instructions comprising: first code instructions for receiving patient data; second code instructions for receiving credit information derived from a credit report of the patient; third code instructions for comparing at least a portion of the patient data and at least a portion of the credit information to respective portions of qualification criteria for each of a plurality of health care financial assistance plans stored in a database within a computer memory, at least a portion of the qualification criteria providing a measure to identify whether the patient has less than adequate means to pay for a health care expense associated with the patient, each of the plurality of health care financial assistance plans offering defrayment of at least a portion of the health care expense if the patient qualifies for the respective health care financial assistance plan; fourth code instructions for determining if the comparison satisfies the qualification criteria for at least one of the plurality of health care financial assistance plans; and fifth code instructions for providing notification of eligibility for every one of the plurality of health care financial assistance plans in which the comparison satisfied the qualification criteria.