Health services delivery system with incentives
First Claim
1. A health care system comprising:
- a) a plurality of subscribers, b) a providing entity including at least one predetermined health care program, said providing entity being organizationally structured to facilitate care of said plurality of subscribers through implementation of said health care program, c) said health care program including a plurality of profiles each of which is determinative of at least one of a plurality of predetermined treatment regimens, and d) said health care program including an incentive system including both credits and penalties assigned to said plurality of subscribers dependent on a degree of compliance with a designated one of said predetermined treatment regimens.
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Abstract
A system of health care service and an associated method of the administration thereof to a plurality of subscribers including a providing entity organizationally structured to implement a health care program which includes categorizing subscribers desirous of health care service, including preventative services, into a plurality of predetermined profiles. The profiles are defined by personal characteristics including age, gender, clinical history, etc. and each profile is associated with a predetermined curative or preventative treatment regimen with which a respective subscriber is expected to comply. An incentive system is implemented to motivate the subscribers into compliance with the assigned treatment regimen and comprises the assignment of credits and penalties based on a degree of compliance with the treatment regimen. Valuable consideration is awarded to the subscriber evidencing a satisfactory degree of compliance.
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31 Claims
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1. A health care system comprising:
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a) a plurality of subscribers, b) a providing entity including at least one predetermined health care program, said providing entity being organizationally structured to facilitate care of said plurality of subscribers through implementation of said health care program, c) said health care program including a plurality of profiles each of which is determinative of at least one of a plurality of predetermined treatment regimens, and d) said health care program including an incentive system including both credits and penalties assigned to said plurality of subscribers dependent on a degree of compliance with a designated one of said predetermined treatment regimens. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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21. A method of administering health care service by a providing entity to a plurality of subscribers, said method comprising:
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maintaining a computerized data base of a plurality of profiles each of which is determinative of a treatment regimen, categorizing each subscriber desirous of receiving health care service into at least one of said plurality of profiles, assigning a predetermined treatment regimen to each subscriber dependent on the profile into which the subscriber is categorized, implementing an incentive system based on compliance of respective ones of the subscribers with the assigned treatment regimen, applying the incentive program by assigning credits and penalties to the subscriber based on the degree of compliance with the assigned treatment regimen, and issuing awards to those subscribers having been assigned an excess of credits over penalties. - View Dependent Claims (22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31)
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