Patent ID: 7254555

Claim:
Apparatus for processing electronic medical data specifying claims for services rendered, the data specifying an account receivable for a provider of medical services, each claims record including (i) data identifying a patient receiving medical services (ii) a date specifying a date associated with the claim, and (iii) a financial data portion specifying an amount billed for medical services, comprising a first system including one or more processors to execute one or more software components and at least one storage device having stored thereon the one or more software components, wherein the one or more software components are adapted to: process the electronic medical data and assign claims represented by the data to one or more pools; create electronic pool data representative of each pool wherein for each pool the data specifies an aggregate value of the medical services for the claims in the pool against which funds may be advanced; electronically transfer data to a second processing system wherein the data transferred specifies at least one claims pool and the aggregate value for the claims pool, and further wherein the transferred data does hot reveal the type of medical service provided to a particular one of the patients receiving medical services for the claims in the at least one pool; the second system including one or more software components adapted to: receive and store the data for the at least one claims pool; process the data for the at least one claims pool in order to facilitate the financing of the claims pool by a financing entity; and one or more processors for executing the one or more software components.