Claim submission system and method
First Claim
1. A system to provide requested insurance data for populating data fields of an electronic claim form, the system comprising:
- a) a database including insurance related patient data and provider data;
b) an interface for accessing the database, the interface capable of displaying the electronic claim form on a display;
c) a unique identifier data field associated with the claim form, the unique identifier field for directing retrieval of the patient data and the provider data from the database, a set of unique identifiers employable by the unique identifier data field for associating an office location of each specified one of the providers with a respective one of the patients; and
d) a data retrieval protocol for displaying the insurance data according to a selected one of the unique identifiers entered in the identifier data field;
wherein the same unique identifier is associated with both the provider and the patient of the provider.
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Abstract
A system and method to provide requested insurance data for populating data fields of an electronic claim form. The system comprises: a database including insurance related patient data and provider data; an interface for accessing the database, the interface capable of displaying the electronic claim form on a display; a unique identifier data field associated with the claim form, the unique identifier field for directing retrieval of the patient data and the provider data from the database, a set of unique identifiers employable by the unique identifier data field for associating an office location of each specified one of the providers with a respective one of the patients; and a data retrieval protocol for displaying the insurance data according to a selected one of the unique identifiers entered in the identifier data field; wherein the same unique identifier is associated with both the provider and the patient of the provider. The database also includes a patient database, a patient sub-database, a provider database, and a provider sub-database.
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30 Claims
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1. A system to provide requested insurance data for populating data fields of an electronic claim form, the system comprising:
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a) a database including insurance related patient data and provider data;
b) an interface for accessing the database, the interface capable of displaying the electronic claim form on a display;
c) a unique identifier data field associated with the claim form, the unique identifier field for directing retrieval of the patient data and the provider data from the database, a set of unique identifiers employable by the unique identifier data field for associating an office location of each specified one of the providers with a respective one of the patients; and
d) a data retrieval protocol for displaying the insurance data according to a selected one of the unique identifiers entered in the identifier data field;
wherein the same unique identifier is associated with both the provider and the patient of the provider. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16)
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17. A computer program product to provide requested insurance data for populating data fields of an electronic claim form, the computer program product comprising:
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a) a computer readable medium;
b) a database module stored on the computer readable medium for including insurance related patient data and provider data;
b) an interface module coupled to the database module, the interface module capable of displaying the electronic claim form on a display;
c) a unique identifier module associated with the claim form, the unique identifier module for directing retrieval of the patient data and the provider data from the database module, a set of unique identifiers employable by the identifier module for associating an office location of each specified one of the providers with a respective one of the patients; and
d) a data retrieval module for displaying the insurance data according to a selected one of the unique identifiers used by the identifier module;
wherein the same unique identifier is associated with both the provider and the patient of the provider. - View Dependent Claims (18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29)
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30. A method to provide requested insurance data for populating data fields of an electronic claim form, the method comprising the steps of:
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a) supplying a database including insurance related patient data and provider data;
b) associating a unique identifier data field with the claim form, the unique identifier field for directing retrieval of the patient data and the provider data from the database, the unique identifier data field using a set of unique identifiers for relating an office location of each specified one of the providers with a respective one of the patients;
c) entering a selected one of the unique identifiers in the identifier data field;
d) retrieving the insurance data from the database according to the selected one of the unique identifiers; and
e) displaying the retrieved data in the electronic claim form;
wherein the same unique identifier is associated with both the provider and the patient of the provider.
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