Apparatuses, Systems, and Methods for Health and Wealth Planning

• US 20120173398A1
• Filed: 12/06/2011
• Published: 07/05/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 12/06/2010
• Status: Active Application

• Current Assignee: UnitedHealth Group Incorporated
• Original Assignee: UnitedHealth Group Incorporated
• Inventors: Sjodin, Cara, Guillemette, Scott
• Application Number:
  US13/312,354
• Publication Number:
  US 20120173398A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/35
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 40/00 Finance; Insurance; Tax strategies; Processing of corporate or income taxes

Abstract

Apparatuses, systems, and methods for estimating retirement costs for an individual are disclosed. The embodiments of this disclosure enable individuals to integrate the projected cost of healthcare into their retirement financial planning Embodiments of methods for estimating retirement costs for an individual may begin by receiving individual biographic data and individual healthcare data. Embodiments of the method may also include associating the individual healthcare data with one or more diagnosis related groups (or episode treatment groups). In some embodiments, the method may include estimating healthcare costs for each of the one or more diagnosis related groups based on historic healthcare records. In some embodiments, the method may further include calculating total healthcare costs in response to the estimated healthcare costs and the individual biographic data.

Claims

1. A method for estimating retirement costs for an individual comprising:

receiving individual biographic data;

receiving individual healthcare data;

associating, with a processing device, the individual healthcare data with one or more diagnosis related groups;

estimating healthcare costs for each of the one or more diagnosis related groups based on historic healthcare records; and

calculating, with the processing device, total healthcare costs in response to the estimated healthcare costs and the individual biographic data.

2. The method of claim 1, where the method further comprises:

receiving individual financial data; and

estimating retirements costs in response to the individual biographic data, the individual financial data and, the total healthcare costs.

3. The method of claim 2, further comprising providing one or more retirement planning recommendations.

4. The method of claim 1, the one or more diagnosis related groups comprising episode treatment groups.

5. The method of claim 1, the individual health care data comprising one or more medical claim records.

6. The method of claim 1, where calculating total healthcare costs further comprises calibrating the total healthcare costs.

7. The method of claim 1, where calculating total healthcare costs further comprises calculating a healthcare cost band.

8. The method of claim 1, where individual biographic data comprises:

age;

gender;

height; and

weight.

9. The method of claim 1, where individual financial data comprises:

projected retirement savings;

estimated retirement income; and

projected retirement age.

10. A system for estimating retirement costs for an individual comprising:

a data storage device configured to store individual biographic data and individual healthcare data;

a server in communication with data storage device suitably programmed to;

associate the individual healthcare data with one or more diagnosis related groups;

estimate healthcare costs for each of the one or more diagnosis related groups based on historic healthcare records; and

calculate total healthcare costs in response to the estimated healthcare costs and the individual biographic data.

11. The system of claim 10, the data storage device configured to store individual financial data and the server further programmed to estimate retirements costs in response to the individual biographic data, the individual financial data and, the total healthcare costs.

12. The system of claim 11, the server further programmed to provide one or more retirement planning recommendations.

13. The system of claim 10, the one or more diagnosis related groups comprising episode treatment groups.

14. The system of claim 10, the individual health care data comprising one or more medical claim records.

15. The system of claim 10, where calculating total healthcare costs further comprises calibrating the total healthcare costs.

16. The system of claim 10, where calculating total healthcare costs further comprises calculating a healthcare cost band.

17. The system of claim 10, where individual biographic data comprises:

age;

gender;

height; and

weight.

18. The system of claim 10, where individual financial data comprises:

projected retirement savings;

estimated retirement income; and

projected retirement age.

19. A computer program product comprising a computer readable medium having computer usable program code executable to perform operations for estimating retirement costs for an individual, the operations of the computer program product comprising:

receiving individual biographic data;

receiving individual healthcare data;

associating the individual healthcare data with one or more diagnosis related groups;

estimating healthcare costs for each of the one or more diagnosis related groups based on historic healthcare records; and

calculating total healthcare costs in response to the estimated healthcare costs and the individual biographic data.

20. The computer program product of claim 19, the operations further comprising:

receiving individual financial data; and

estimating retirements costs in response to the individual biographic data, the individual financial data and, the total healthcare costs.