Patent ID: 8185415

Claim:
A method of comparison of insurance plans of employees among a peer group of an organization, the method: deriving a benchmark associated with a plurality of the insurance plans by transforming data associated with each insurance plan into a canonical form that enables comparisons across the plurality of insurance plans, the transforming step normalizing into a common attribute a first attribute from a first insurance plan and a second attribute from a second insurance plan, the second attribute being the same as the first attribute but differing in form, the benchmark being derived from the canonical form; receiving, by a web interface, data on a plurality of attributes of an insurance plan of an employee associated with the organization, the web interface executing on a server; receiving, by the web interface, one or more attributes as comparison criteria; comparing, by a computing device in communication with the web interface, the comparison criteria to the benchmark associated with a plurality of insurance plans of employees of a peer group of the organization; generating at least one report based on the comparison; and providing, by the web interface to the user, the at least one report.