Patent ID: 7263493

Claim:
In a client system that is associated with an institutional health care provider and communicates with a server system adapted to facilitate processing of an insurance claim, a method of providing a supporting document to the server system to enable a carrier associated with the insurance claim to process an insurance claim, the method comprising the acts of: receiving, at the client system associated with the institutional health care provider, patient information, insurance information, and treatment information entered into a computer-displayable claim form displayed by the client system; the client system transmitting an insurance claim that includes the patient information, insurance information, and treatment information from the client system to the remote server computer using computer-displayable the claim form; the client system identifying a supporting document that is required to process the insurance claim while displaying the claim form; the client system converting the supporting document into an electronic format; the client system transmitting the supporting document in the electronic format from the client system; the client system receiving verification that the insurance claim is in condition for advance payment; and the client system receiving a first portion of an advance payment for the insurance claim in a first account, wherein a second portion is credited to a second account that is not accessible to the institutional health care provider until debited at least for service fees by an entity that advanced payment to the client system.