Patent ID: 8380537

Claim:
A computer system for transmitting healthcare claims data between a provider and healthcare payor, the computer system comprising: a server in communication with a healthcare provider computer system and one or more healthcare payor computer systems; wherein the server is configured to receive healthcare claims data of a first patient between the healthcare provider computer system and the one or more healthcare payor computer systems; wherein communication between the server, the healthcare provider computer system and the healthcare payor computer system is over the Internet; wherein the one or more payor computer systems are configured to receive healthcare claims data of a plurality of patients through the server; wherein the server is configured to transfer the healthcare claims data of the first patient between the provider computer system and one of the one or more healthcare payor computers; wherein the healthcare claims data of the one or more patients is communicable between the provider computer system and the one or more healthcare payor computers is configured to be converted into a normalized format of a type that displays healthcare claims data from one or more sources such that any healthcare claims data having the same meaning will be expressed in the same format despite any prior formatting; wherein the healthcare claims data of the plurality of patients is configured to be converted into the normalized format by a normalization system of the computer system which includes: a rules engine that is configured to predetermine how each healthcare claims data is to appear in its respective field, and configured to remodel any healthcare claims data not expressed as predetermined by the normalized format into the normalized format to become normalized claims data such that all normalized claims data that expresses information having the same meaning is expressed in the same format.