Patent ID: 8027851

Claim:
A method of automatically supplying personalized requests from health care providers for eligibility data from insurance companies comprising: storing computer-readable eligibility and benefits filtering rules in a filtering rules database that is accessible by a server computer, where the eligibility and benefits filtering rules are based upon information specified by a participating insurance company; storing computer-readable personalization profiles accessible by the server computer, for each participating health care provider, where each personalization profile is based on at least one of corresponding personalized parameters and variables received from a corresponding health care provider; receiving a request at the server computer across a computer network from a select health care provider's computer for personalized eligibility and benefits data that is associated with at least one selected insurance company; applying information from the personalization profile associated with the select health care provider to select a corresponding set of the eligibility and benefits rules from the filtering rules database; obtaining by the server computer, a collection of eligibility data from each selected insurance company; generating by the server computer, the personalized eligibility and benefits data by using the corresponding set of eligibility and benefits filtering rules from the filtering rules database to select a subset of the collection of eligibility data to send to the select health care provider; and transmitting the subset of eligibility data from the server computer to the select health care provider's computer across the network.