Patent ID: 8086474

Claim:
A method for calculating a financial responsibility, comprising: accessing, by a software application executing on a computer processor and operated by a party selected from a group consisting of a patient and a relative of the patient, a repository of a medical insurance provider (MIP); searching, by the software application operated by the party, a plurality of entries in the repository of the MIP based on a date; retrieving, in response to searching and by the software application operated by the party, an entry in the repository corresponding to the date and identifying a first medical procedure (MP) performed on the patient by a medical service provider (MSP), an amount billed to the party for the first MP, a second MP performed on the patient; and an amount billed to the party for the second MP; retrieving, in response to searching and by the software application operated by the party, an adjusted entry in the repository corresponding to the date and identifying the first MP and an adjusted amount billed to the party for the first medical procedure; determining, by the software application operated by the party, that the adjusted entry is a revision of the entry based on the adjusted entry being more recent than the entry; calculating, by the software application operated by the party, the financial responsibility of the party for the first MP and the second MP by summing the adjusted amount and the amount billed to the patient for the second MP; and generating, by the software application operated by the party, a graphical user interface (GUI) identifying the first MP, the amount billed to the party for the first MP, an indication the amount billed to the party for the first MP is incorrect, the adjusted amount, the second medical procedure, the amount billed to the party for the second MP, and the financial responsibility of the party.