Patent ID: 7702522

Claim:
A medical management system comprising at least one electronic device having: a) a display; b) a memory; and c) a processor operating in accordance with software for: 1) receiving an identifier associated with a third party payor (“TPP”) as input; 2) accessing data indicative of the historical payment patterns of the TPP to one or more medical service providers from which a net present value of a future payment by the TPP for at least one requested medical service for a patient associated with the TPP may be generated and assigning a rank to a patient's TPP; 3) generating an indication of the net present value of the at least one requested medical service prior to providing the medical service, the indication based at least in part upon the historical payment patterns of the TPP to the one or more medical service providers; and 4) generating an indication of when the patient is accepted as a new patient based in part on the net present value and the rank assigned to the patient's TPP; 5) generating an indication of when the patient's requested appointment should be scheduled based in part on the net present value and the rank assigned to the patient's TPP.