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Estimating fees and costs incurred by a patient receiving a healthcare service

  • US 10,304,068 B2
  • Filed: 12/27/2012
  • Issued: 05/28/2019
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/27/2012
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A computer-implemented method performed by a server system, comprising:

  • electronically receiving, by a network interface of a server system, a previously prepared estimate of fees and costs to deliver a healthcare service, wherein the healthcare service includes at least one of a diagnosis, treatment, or prevention of a particular disease, illness, injury, or other physical or mental impairment to a particular patient;

    electronically receiving, by the network interface of the server system, a request for information indicative of fees and costs incurred to date in providing the healthcare service to the particular patient;

    electronically receiving, by the network interface of the server system, data at least partially indicative of the healthcare service provided to the patient to date;

    electronically estimating, by a processing unit of the server system, probable fees and costs incurred to date in providing the healthcare service to the particular patient, the estimating based on the received data at least partially indicative of the healthcare service provided to the patient to date;

    electronically estimating, by the processing unit of the server system, a specific day when a specified fees and costs threshold will be reached should the healthcare service continue to be provided to the patient based on the previously prepared estimate of fees and costs and the estimated probable fees and costs incurred to date; and

    eliciting an input from the patient via a mobile device associated with the patient, the elicited input from the patient modifying the data at least partially indicative of the healthcare service provided to the patient to date, the eliciting caused by outputting in substantially real time, by the network interface of the server system, a notification to the mobile device associated with the patient in response to the specific day when the specified fees and costs threshold will be reached being before a previously estimated specific day when the specified fees and costs threshold will be reached, wherein the notification includes information indicative of the probable fees and costs incurred to date in view of the previous estimate of the fees and costs for providing the healthcare service and indicative of the specific day when the specified fees and costs threshold will be reached;

    wherein the elicited input from the patient comprises a photograph taken by the patient using the mobile device, the photograph indicative of an activity occurring within a proximity of the patient related to provision of the healthcare service to the patient.

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