System and Method for Providing Customized Messages Relating to Health Plan Members

• US 20080082351A1
• Filed: 04/27/2007
• Published: 04/03/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 04/28/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Uniprise, Inc. (UnitedHealth Group Incorporated)
• Original Assignee: Uniprise, Inc. (UnitedHealth Group Incorporated)
• Inventors: Schneppmueller, Laurie, Tarino, Michael, Kelley-Hrabe, Jamie
• Application Number:
  US11/741,298
• Publication Number:
  US 20080082351A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/1
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 80/00 ICT specially adapted for facilitating communication between medical practitioners or patients, e.g. for collaborative diagnosis, therapy or health monitoring

Abstract

A system and method generates customized health-related messages for one or more health plan members. The customized messages may include customized information relevant to each recipient member based on available member data, and provide the members with education, resources, knowledge and/or guidance on a member'"'"'s accounts, benefits, health-related conditions and wellness potentially needed to make better-informed healthcare decisions. Messages may be provided to members and/or healthcare personnel involved in the care of plan members. To provide customized messages relating to one or more health plan members, member data is compiled to identify one or more outcomes related to the member data for each member. The outcomes are risk-stratified, and message data is generated based on the risk-stratified outcomes. The message data is configured based on the member'"'"'s plan benefits, and customized messages including the configured message data are provided to the respective members and/or healthcare personnel.

Claims

1. A method for providing customized messages relating to a health plan member comprising:

compiling health-related member data associated with the member;

analyzing the member data to identify at least one outcome relating to the health or healthcare of the member;

risk-stratifying the at least one outcome;

generating message data based on at least one of the risk-stratified outcomes;

configuring the message data based on the member'"'"'s health plan benefits; and

providing a customized message including the configured message data to the member.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the health-related member data comprises at least one of medical, laboratory, prescription claim data, healthcare-related claim data, and health assessment data.

3. The method claim 1, wherein compiling member data comprises analyzing member data using industry standard data.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the industry standard data comprises evidence based medicine data or industry medical cost data.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the health-related member data comprises member plan benefit data, member claim data, prescription claim data, laboratory claim data, predictive model scores and member account balances.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein compiling member data comprises predictive modeling of health-related risks.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein risk-stratifying the one or more outcomes comprises ranking each of the one or more outcomes, and wherein the message data comprises the highest ranked outcome.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the customized message is provided as part of the member'"'"'s health plan statement.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the customized message is provided to the member electronically.

10. The method of claim 1, further comprising configuring the message data based on the members communication preferences.

11. A method for providing customized messages relating to a health plan member comprising:

compiling health-related member data associated with the member;

analyzing the member data to identify at least one outcome relating to the health or healthcare of the member;

risk-stratifying the at least one outcome;

generating message data based on at least one of the risk-stratified outcomes;

configuring the message data based on the member'"'"'s health plan benefits; and

providing a customized message including the configured message data to healthcare personnel.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein the healthcare personnel is a healthcare provider.

13. The method of claim 11, wherein the healthcare personnel is a customer care professional.

14. The method of claim 11, wherein the health-related member data comprises member plan benefit data, member claim data, prescription claim data, laboratory claim data, predictive model scores and member account balances.

15. The method of claim 11, wherein risk-stratifying the one or more outcomes comprises ranking each of the one or more outcomes, and wherein the message data comprises the highest ranked outcome.

16. A system for providing a customized message relating to a health plan member, comprising:

data storage for storing health-related member-related data;

a processor for;

compiling health-related member data associated with the member;

analyzing the member data to identify at least one outcome relating to the health or healthcare of the member;

risk-stratifying the at least one outcome;

generating message data based on at least one of the risk-stratified outcomes; and

configuring the message data based on the member'"'"'s health plan benefits; and

a message generator for providing a customized message including the configured message data to the member.

17. The system of claim 16, wherein the message generator is a health statement generator for receiving the configured message data and generating a member health statement that includes the configured message data.

18. The system of claim 16, further comprising the processor configuring the message data based on the member'"'"'s communication preferences.

19. A customized message for a health plan member, wherein the customized message is generated by:

compiling health-related member data associated with the member;

analyzing the member data to identify at least one outcome relating to the health or healthcare of the member;

risk-stratifying the at least one outcome;

generating message data based on at least one of the risk-stratified outcomes;

configuring the message data based on the member'"'"'s health plan benefits to create a customized message.

20. The customized message according to claim 19, further comprising configuring the message data based on the member'"'"'s communication preferences.