Patent ID: 7617116

Claim:
A computerized method for managing a medical practice comprising: storing by a medical practice management server in a rules database a plurality of insurance rules comprising one or more classes of rules, each class of rules being associated with one of a plurality of payor servers; receiving by the medical practice management server data indicative of a completed claim submission for a claim from a medical practice client, the claim being associated with a payor server; and automatically interacting with the completed claim submission by the medical practice management server to correct an error in the completed claim submission, wherein the error is resolved by the medical practice client before processing the completed claim submission, by applying one or more rules from a class of rules associated with the payor server, wherein the one or more rules comprises a new rule, an updated rule, or both received from the payor server, the interacting step comprising: the medical practice management server automatically associating a first claim status with the completed claim submission indicative of the claim not satisfying one of the one or more rules; the medical practice management server transmitting data indicative of a claim edit screen to the medical practice client, the claim edit screen comprising a claim edit section for editing the completed claim submission and a claim error explanation portion to explain one or more errors in the completed claim submission to a medical care provider; the medical practice management server receiving data indicative of an updated completed claim submission from the medical practice client; the medical practice management server correcting the completed claim submission based on the updated completed claim submission; and the medical practice management server automatically associating a second claim status with the completed claim submission indicative of the completed claim submission satisfying all of the one or more rules.