Patent ID: 8457986

Claim:
A medical shared savings system, comprising: a data store that stores medical plan information for a medical plan associated with a patient and an employer, and pricing data for a medical procedure under a medical savings plan, the pricing data including a cost of the medical procedure offered in the United States according to the medical plan and a cost of the medical procedure offered in one or more regions outside of the United States, the pricing data including travel costs; a medical shared savings unit that interacts with one or more computing devices and the data store via a communications network, the medical shared savings unit receiving a selection from one of the one or more computing devices to select the medical procedure as part of the medical savings plan, and calculating a savings based on a difference between the cost of the medical procedure performed in a patient-selected region outside of the United States and the cost of the medical procedure performed within the United States, the medical shared savings unit dividing the savings between the employer and the patient based on a medical savings plan model when the patient undergoes the medical procedure in the patient-selected region outside of the United States, the medical savings plan model dividing the savings between the employer and patient at an unequal percentage of the savings.