Patent ID: 7606721
Filing Date: 2009-10-20
Classification: G06Q,G16H

Abstract:
1. A method for determining possible resolutions of patient credit balance accounts, wherein patient credit balance accounts are accounts on a service provider's accounts receivable having financial transactions including cash payments and contractual allowances in excess of total charges and the patient credit balance accounts including information relating to services provided to a patient and accumulation of charges associated with the service, the method comprising: inputting, for use by a processing device, the patient credit balance accounts and financial transactions associated with the patient credit balance accounts; identifying, by the processing device, criteria associated with possible resolutions to the patient credit balance accounts in response to the inputted financial transactions; and determining, by the processing device, possible resolutions for the patient credit balance accounts based on the identified criteria; wherein each of the possible resolutions is associated with a resolvable error for a corresponding patient credit balance account which facilitates resolving the corresponding patient credit balance account, wherein one of the determined possible resolutions being an allowance error and wherein the allowance error is based on the identified criteria including accounts having duplicate adjustments, adjustments equal to the account balance, no payments in an account and adjustments in an account equaling an inverse of total charges of the account.