PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16203611
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-11
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["705", "002000"]

Abstract:
A post-acute-care/home-care-options compliance table for post-acute-care patients about to be discharged helps keep hospitals, skilled nursing facilities, residential care facilities for the elderly (RCFE's), and communities in compliance by recording the circumstances, how, and who referred and selected which home care company. Each specific referral source can be recorded as coming from a case manager, social worker, discharge planner, director of assisted living, sales director, executive director, administrator, etc. Archiving such data assists in keeping each referral source in compliance with Medicare, and helps avoid an unintentional violation of the Stark Law. Post-acute-care patients have in their hands an objective and consistent view into all their available home care options, therefore keeping the referral sources themselves clear of many common compliance violations. Legal liabilities involved are reduced, and the post-acute-care patients themselves make their own home care decisions using the solid information placed in their hands with the tablet.

Claim (Index 1):
A method of complying with legal constraints against fraud imposed by law on acute-care hospitals in the referral of post-acute-care patients to a designated healthcare service (DHS), comprising:\n autonomously and robotically educating a post-acute-care patient as to the existence and qualifications of a plurality of competing DHS providers by placing in their hands while in their hospital rooms a personal portable electronic device or wireless tablet capable of displaying preapproved, preselected, and preloaded summaries of the DHS providers predetermined by a supervising doctor to be qualified to deliver post-acute-care to this particular post-acute-care patient; accepting and recording any choices of particular DHS providers selected by the acute-care patient after their review of a display and presentation of the existence and qualifications of the plurality of competing DHS providers, wherein the accepting and recording is a peripheral function of the wireless tablet by touchscreen or audio input; and storing an audit record of the exact things displayed and presented to every post-acute-care patient issued the wireless tablet prior to their choices of particular DHS providers being accepted and recorded, together with the choices themselves; wherein, the displays and presentations that are shown to each post-acute-care patient by the wireless tablets are certified by a staff worker to be uniformly and demonstrably free of favoritism, bias, and preference on the part of the acute-care hospitals amongst the individual competitors in the plurality of competing DHS providers.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 7.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.57798
- Patent Class: 705.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14737212', '14017919', '11447627', '13552832', '12890018']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.1159672107292449
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5011833871553368
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.1544888283718541
- Mean Citation Score: 234.543896
- Max Citation Score: 245.09825
- Similarity Product: 160.3850465417206

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 0
- Claim Label 103: 1
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 0
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

Dataset: test