Patent ID: 7996241

Claim:
A computer implemented method of rewarding health care providers in a health care organization using an integrated medical management system, comprising the steps of: providing said integrated medical management system, wherein the integrated medical management system comprises a web application for analyzing performance of said health care providers; acquiring information from a plurality of medical management systems using said web application; determining performance indices for the health care providers based on said acquired information using the web application, comprising: calculating quality indices of said health care providers, wherein said quality indices are based on one or more of predetermined health plan employer data and information set analysis, predetermined disease management analysis, and predetermined quality of healthcare measure; calculating economic indices of said health care providers, wherein said economic indices are based on one or more of utilization analytics, physician profiling, and authorizations management of a health care provider compared to other health care providers in a health plan; and calculating a relative value unit index, wherein said relative value unit index is based on utilization of relative value units; analyzing said performance of the health care providers based on said determined performance indices, wherein said step of analyzing the performance comprises identifying the health care providers eligible for a reward; and rewarding said identified health care providers based on said analyzed performance; whereby said health care organization rewards the health care providers based on the performance of the health care providers.