Patent ID: 7921123

Claim:
A method for gathering, collating and sorting information items distributed among a plurality of databases containing information items regarding physician treatment/billing claims, insurance payments, and provider/patient relations over at least one communication network, said method comprising the steps of: (a) creating an intermediate data base of said physician treatment/billing claim data, insurance payment data, and insurance provider data, wherein information items among said databases are cross-referenced with regard to at least one common information item; (b) filtering said intermediate data base using at least one selected information item contained in said intermediate data base to create at least one file containing cross-referenced data items relating to said at least one selected information item; (c) reporting the cross-referenced data items; (d) filtering the cross-referenced data items in said at least one created file to create at least one file containing additional cross-referenced data item relating to at least one additional information item; (e) reporting the additional cross-referenced data items; and (f) repeating steps (d) and (e) until all gathering, collating and sorting information items is complete.