Patent ID: 8645168

Claim:
A method executed within an electronic bill processing network for coordinating the submission and processing of a predictive based electronic invoice according to predictive payment data of an insurance plan, the predictive based electronic invoice including a request for payment for insurance services defined in the insurance plan, the method comprising the steps of: storing, in a memory of a database coupled to an adjudication engine, the predictive payment data corresponding to the insurance plan, the contents of the insurance plan including definitions for a plurality of valid insurance services and including corresponding valid expenses for performing each of the plurality of valid insurance services; triggering generation of the predictive based electronic invoice at a predefined interval according to a predictive payment parameter, the electronic invoice including the predictive payment data represented in the contents of the insurance plan; inserting the predictive based electronic invoice in a queue of the memory for eventual adjudication of the predictive payment data; providing from the queue the predictive based electronic invoice to the adjudication engine for processing; and upon recognizing completion of processing of the predictive based electronic invoice, generating a processing result of the predictive based electronic invoice as defined by the predictive payment data once adjudicated.