System and method for correlating medical procedures and medical billing codes
First Claim
1. A method of generating official billing codes in response to selected medical procedures, said method for use with a host computer of the type having a processing unit, memory, a monitor, and a user interface, said method comprising the steps of:
- providing a category of medical procedures;
providing a collection of raw codes, each raw code corresponding to a medical procedure of said category of medical procedures;
selecting a set of medical procedures from said category of medical procedures;
generating a set of raw codes associated with the set of selected medical procedures by recalling specific raw codes from said collection which correspond to said set of selected medical procedures;
analyzing said set of raw codes to compute a set of intermediate codes, said intermediate codes representing the interrelation of the set of selected medical procedures; and
generating a set of said official billing codes from said set of intermediate codes by providing a collection of official billing codes corresponding to a collection of intermediate codes, and recalling specific official billing codes associated with said set of intermediate codes.
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Abstract
A method and a system for performing the inventive method are provided to correlate billing codes with planned or performed medical procedures. The method comprises the steps of determining raw codes directly associated with all of the medical procedures performed or planned to be performed with a particular patient examination, and manipulating the raw codes by the steps of a final common pathway to generate intermediate codes without altering the raw codes. The method also comprises the step of determining the billing codes from the intermediate codes.
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23 Claims
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1. A method of generating official billing codes in response to selected medical procedures, said method for use with a host computer of the type having a processing unit, memory, a monitor, and a user interface, said method comprising the steps of:
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providing a category of medical procedures; providing a collection of raw codes, each raw code corresponding to a medical procedure of said category of medical procedures; selecting a set of medical procedures from said category of medical procedures; generating a set of raw codes associated with the set of selected medical procedures by recalling specific raw codes from said collection which correspond to said set of selected medical procedures; analyzing said set of raw codes to compute a set of intermediate codes, said intermediate codes representing the interrelation of the set of selected medical procedures; and generating a set of said official billing codes from said set of intermediate codes by providing a collection of official billing codes corresponding to a collection of intermediate codes, and recalling specific official billing codes associated with said set of intermediate codes. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 21, 22, 23)
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13. A method of generating official billing codes in response to selected medical procedures, said method for use with a host computer of the type having a processing unit with volatile memory, nonvolatile memory, a monitor, a user interface and a data selector, said method comprising the steps of:
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selecting a subset of medical procedures from a specified set of medical procedures; analyzing said subset of selected medical procedures to determine if any of the medical procedures of said subset is a subprocedure of another selected medical procedure of said subset, and eliminating said subprocedures from said subset of selected medical procedures; and generating a set of official billing codes for said subset of selected medical procedures by; providing a collection of official billing codes corresponding to said specified set of medical procedures; and recalling specific official billing codes associated with said selected medical procedures of said subset. - View Dependent Claims (14)
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15. A method of organizing medical examinations, said method for use with a host computer of the type having a processing unit with volatile memory, nonvolatile memory, a monitor, a user interface and a data selector, said method comprising the steps of:
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selecting a subset of medical procedures from a specified set of medical procedures stored in the nonvolatile memory; storing said subset of selected medical procedures in a first system variable of said volatile memory; assigning a status to said subset of selected medical procedures and storing said status in a second system variable, said status being assigned by selecting said status from a specified set of progressive stages associated with said specified set of medical procedures, said specified set of progressive stages being stored in the nonvolatile memory; and creating a recording having a plurality of data fields in a data base stored on the nonvolatile memory and writing said first and second system variables to corresponding data fields of said record. - View Dependent Claims (16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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