Patent ID: 7395217

Claim:
A system for assisting providers to prepare billings associated with workers' compensation claims, comprising: a workers' compensation claims verification system; software accessed at a plurality of provider computers, the software prompting providers to input data concerning workers' compensation claims, and sending electronic claim number requests containing at least some of the inputted data across the Internet to the workers' compensation claim verification system; wherein, the workers' compensation claims verification system receives the data contained in the electronic claim number requests; and determines whether matching workers' compensation claim numbers associated with the received data exist; electronically supplies the matching workers' compensation claim numbers determined to exist to corresponding ones of the sending provider computers, wherein said providers use said supplied claim numbers to prepare the billings, and automatically sends an indication of the lack of determining the workers' compensation claim number to at least one of a plurality of payer computers, each being associated with a different payer, for each matching workers' compensation claim number determined not to exist.