Patent ID: 8335696

Claim:
A computer implemented method for providing a price competitive health care system comprising: establishing a website, hosted on a computer server, the computer server configured so as to establish the website for the health care network; the health care network having providers and subscribers; the website soliciting providers to join the health care network, providing on the website applications for providers to join the health care network; receiving completed applications from providers to join the health care network from the providers' computers via the internet; receiving and examining the credentials of the providers and approving certain providers to join the health care network; receiving pricing information from the approved providers through the approved providers' computers via the internet on the website in the form of a percentage of an index which the approved providers are willing to charge subscribers for their goods and/or services; the percentage of the index for a substantial number of the approved providers being less than or greater than one hundred percent (100%); the index being the Resource Board Relative Value Scale, the Diagnoses Related Group, or the Average Wholesale Price Index; listing the pricing information on the website; and enabling subscribers who may be interested in purchasing the goods and/or services of one or more of the approved providers to access the website from the subscribers' computers via the internet; the computer server being configured to enable the solicitations of providers, the receipt of the applications from providers, the listing of the pricing information on the website, and the access to the website by the subscribers.