Patent ID: 8615409

Claim:
A method of identifying a potential third-party claim or a potential subrogation claim, the method comprising: receiving, in a computer system, insurance payment information, the insurance payment information comprising information concerning patients, members or insureds; receiving, in the computer system, litigation information, the litigation information comprising information concerning parties in lawsuits; analyzing, in the computer system, the commonality of data elements in the insurance payment information that identify one or more patients, members or insureds with data elements in the litigation information that identify one or more of the parties in lawsuits; matching, based on the common data elements, at least one of the patients, members or insureds in the insurance payment information with at least one of the parties in the lawsuits; identifying a potential third-party claim or a potential subrogation claim against one of the parties in lawsuits based on the matching; and wherein the insurance payment information is not directly or indirectly matched with the litigation information for a potential third-party claim or a potential subrogation claim prior to the analyzing and matching.