Patent ID: RE43550

Claim:
A method of collecting fees for managing and optimizing the profitability of a plurality of physicians in a healthcare practice participating in an insurance network, the method comprising the steps of: establishing a relationship between a healthcare consultation group and the a healthcare practice participating in the an insurance network to increase the profitability of a plurality of physicians' profitability physicians in the healthcare practice by reducing a risk of the healthcare practice not receiving a predetermined reimbursement amount for ancillary medical costs from the insurance network; funding an incentive pool; gathering , by a computer, data in a tangible computer medium from on each of the plurality of physicians in the healthcare practice participating in the insurance network including ancillary medical costs respective to the physicians; modifying behavior of at least one of the plurality of physicians in the healthcare practice for management of the ancillary medical costs responsive to the gathered data gathered in the tangible computer medium ; determining , by the computer, whether the ancillary medical costs of the plurality of physicians in the healthcare practice have reached a predetermined level within over a preselected period of time; paying funds from the funded incentive pool to the healthcare practice participating in the insurance network when the ancillary medical costs of the plurality of physicians in the healthcare practice have not decreased to the preselected level over the preselected period of time; and distributing predetermined percentages of savings attributed to the modifying modified ancillary medical cost management behavior of the plurality of physicians ancillary medical cost management if when the ancillary medical costs of the plurality of physicians in the healthcare practice have decreased to the preselected level over the preselected period of time.