Automated posting of medical insurance claims
First Claim
1. A method for inputting into a computerized data base system data disposed in a desired format stored in the data base system and comprising test, the method comprising the steps of:
- (a) providing a document of desired format;
(b) optically scanning the document and converting information thereon into computer readable characters and inputting the computer readable characters to a computer;
(c) automatically determining which, if any, converted information does not correspond to the desired format and reconstructing within the computer into which the optically scanned document has been input by reference to the desired format or other converted information, converted information which does not conform to the desired format;
(d) automatically flagging converted information which does not conform to the desired format and which cannot be reconstructed;
(e) manually correcting the flagged information; and
(f) transferring the converted, reconstructed and corrected document into a computerized data base system.
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Abstract
A method for inputting into a computerized data base system data disposed in a known format and comprising machine generated text is disclosed. The method comprises the steps of providing a document of known format; inputting the document into a computer system and converting the document into computer readable characters without manual typing of each characters; reconstructing within the computer the converted text which does not conform to the known format; flagging converted text which does not conform to the known format and which cannot be reconstructed; manually correcting the flagged text; and inputting the converted document to a computerized data base system.
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30 Claims
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1. A method for inputting into a computerized data base system data disposed in a desired format stored in the data base system and comprising test, the method comprising the steps of:
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(a) providing a document of desired format; (b) optically scanning the document and converting information thereon into computer readable characters and inputting the computer readable characters to a computer; (c) automatically determining which, if any, converted information does not correspond to the desired format and reconstructing within the computer into which the optically scanned document has been input by reference to the desired format or other converted information, converted information which does not conform to the desired format; (d) automatically flagging converted information which does not conform to the desired format and which cannot be reconstructed; (e) manually correcting the flagged information; and (f) transferring the converted, reconstructed and corrected document into a computerized data base system. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11)
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12. A method for automatically posting data to a provider'"'"'s medical system, the data being contained on at least a page of a returned medical insurance claim, each page having data disposed in a known format, the method comprising the steps of:
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(a) providing a returned medical insurance claim of desired format having information thereon; (b) optically scanning each page of the returned medical insurance claim and converting the information into computer readable text which is then input into a computer; (c) automatically determining within the computer which text does not correspond to the desired format and reconstructing within the computer by reference to the desired format or the converted information the converted text that does not conform to the desired format; (d) flagging converted test that does not conform to the desired format and which cannot be reconstructed and requesting correction and confirmation thereof; (e) manually correcting flagged text which is not confirmed; (f) repeating the determining and reconstructing step to thereby correct or confirm all other flagged text; and (g) automatically posting the converted, reconstructed and corrected returned medical insurance claim to a provider'"'"'s computer system. - View Dependent Claims (13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21)
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22. A method for inputting data disposed in a plurality of rows and columns of known format on a document having machine generated text into a computer system, the method comprising the steps of:
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(a) scanning the document text and thereby converting the text into computer readable characters and inputting the computer readable characters into a computer; (b) automatically reconstructing by reference to a desired format or other computer readable characters within the computer converted text that does not conform to a desired format; (c) automatically flagging within the computer converted text that does not conform to the desired format; (d) interactively correcting the flagged text; and (e) automatically transferring the corrected text into another computer system. - View Dependent Claims (23, 24, 25, 26, 27)
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28. A method for computer processing documents, comprising the steps of:
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(a) providing a document having information thereon; (b) optically scanning the document and converting the information into computer usable text; (c) inputting the computer usable text into a computer; (d) comparing within the computer the computer usable text with a predetermined format and determining which, if any, of the computer usable text does not correspond to the predetermined format; and (e) requesting correction or confirmation of the accuracy of the computer usable text determined not to correspond to the predetermined format. - View Dependent Claims (29)
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30. A system for inputting into a computer data from a document having a known format and having machine generated text, comprising:
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(a) a computer system; (b) means for optically scanning the document and converting the document text into computer readable characters so that the converted text may be input into the said system; (c) first program means within said system for automatically reconstructing converted text that does not conform to a predetermined format stored in said system; (d) second program means within said system for permitting converted text that does not conform to the predetermined format to be manually corrected; and (e) third program means within said system for automatically posting the correct text to another computer system.
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