Patent ID: 8725530

Claim:
An electronic device comprising: (a) a processor; (b) a display screen; and (c) a non-transitory computer readable medium containing computer executable instructions configured to perform a method comprising (i) querying a user regarding a healthcare issue, (ii) providing, to the user via the display screen, information regarding a favored treatment for the healthcare issue, (iii) receiving, from the user, an indication of a preferred treatment, (iv) querying the user regarding information for calculating third party benefit information including household size information, insurance coverage information, and income information, (v) receiving from the user, in response to querying the user, information for calculating third party benefit information, (vi) automatically generating, using received household information, insurance coverage information, and income information, a recommendation as to where to apply for potential third party coverage of the preferred treatment, the computer executable instructions being configured to (A) determine, based on the received insurance coverage information, whether the user has certain benefit coverage, and proceed down a corresponding first decision branch based on such determination, (B) determine, based on the received household information, whether the user is single or a size of the patient's household, and proceed down a corresponding second decision branch based on such determination, (C) determine, based on the received income information, whether the user's income falls at or below a certain amount, and proceed down a third corresponding decision branch based on such determination, and (D) arrive at, based on having proceeded down the first, second, and third decision branches, the recommendation as to where to apply for potential third party coverage of the preferred treatment, and (vii) presenting the automatically generated recommendation as to where to apply for potential third party coverage of the preferred treatment.