Insurance Plan Rating and Ranking System
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1. An interactive computer system for building a simultaneous display of two or more health insurance plans that reflect the character of an enrollee comprising providing a computer system which performs the steps of;
- a. receiving from a user qualitative inputs regarding an enrollee'"'"'s healthcare preferences;
b. receiving from a user qualitative inputs regarding the ranked relative importance of the elements from (a) for the enrollee;
c. receiving from an automated system quantitative inputs related to the user'"'"'s prior or current behavior as it pertains to insurance usage;
d. receiving from an automated system quantitative inputs regarding regionally available healthcare plans;
e. receiving from an automated system healthcare plan documents for at least 2 preceding years for the plans listed in d;
f evaluating the documents from (e) for changes in at least two of previous years to at least two of cost share, provider network drug formulary, utilization management criteria, government ratings including star ratings, recent network changes;
g. generating, based on (f), relative stability scores for each plan;
h. generating, based on (a), (b), and (c) a set of criteria affecting the suitability of plans for a user;
i. generating a list based on the outputs of the (g) and (h), a list of plans suitable for a user as well as their respective stability scores.
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Abstract
The present development is a system for ranking and rating competing healthcare insurance options available in a marketplace based on metrics relevant to an enrollee or patient.
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1. An interactive computer system for building a simultaneous display of two or more health insurance plans that reflect the character of an enrollee comprising providing a computer system which performs the steps of;
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a. receiving from a user qualitative inputs regarding an enrollee'"'"'s healthcare preferences; b. receiving from a user qualitative inputs regarding the ranked relative importance of the elements from (a) for the enrollee; c. receiving from an automated system quantitative inputs related to the user'"'"'s prior or current behavior as it pertains to insurance usage; d. receiving from an automated system quantitative inputs regarding regionally available healthcare plans; e. receiving from an automated system healthcare plan documents for at least 2 preceding years for the plans listed in d; f evaluating the documents from (e) for changes in at least two of previous years to at least two of cost share, provider network drug formulary, utilization management criteria, government ratings including star ratings, recent network changes; g. generating, based on (f), relative stability scores for each plan; h. generating, based on (a), (b), and (c) a set of criteria affecting the suitability of plans for a user; i. generating a list based on the outputs of the (g) and (h), a list of plans suitable for a user as well as their respective stability scores. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5)
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6. An interactive computer system for assisting a user to build a simultaneous display of two or more health insurance plans that reflects the character of an enrollee comprising providing a computer interface which performs the steps of;
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a. receiving from a user qualitative inputs regarding the enrollee'"'"'s healthcare preferences; b. receiving from a user qualitative inputs regarding the ranked relative importance of the elements from (a); c. receiving from an automated system quantitative inputs related to the enrollee'"'"'s prior or current behavior as it pertains to insurance usage; d. receiving from an automated system quantitative inputs regarding regionally available healthcare plans; h. generating, based on (a), (b), and (c) a set of criteria affecting the suitability of plans for an enrollee; i. generating a list based on the outputs of the (d), a list of plans suitable for a user as well as their respective stability scores; j. generating based on (a), (c), and (i) natural language “
positioning statements”
that link plan features and benefits in terms of the enrollee and patient'"'"'s actual usage and stated priorities.
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