Patent ID: 7805322

Claim:
A healthcare eligibility and benefits data system, the system comprising: a provider computer configured to: receive patient information for a patient; communicate an eligibility request to a payer computer, wherein the eligibility request is based on the received patient information; receive an eligibility response from the payer computer in response to the eligibility request, wherein the eligibility response includes data associated with the patient in a format that is acceptable to the payer computer; obtain the data associated with the patient and capture the format for the data associated with the patient from the eligibility response received from the payer computer, wherein the data associated with the patient includes identification data of the patient; store the data associated with the patient and the format from the eligibility response; populate a subsequent eligibility request for the patient with the data associated with the patient and format the data associated with the patient according to the format captured from the eligibility response; and send the subsequent eligibility request to the payer computer.