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Direct connectivity system for healthcare administrative transactions

  • US 9,020,826 B2
  • Filed: 06/27/2005
  • Issued: 04/28/2015
  • Est. Priority Date: 06/28/2004
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A non-transitory machine readable medium encoded with instructions that cause a service provider data processing system to perform a method comprising the acts of:

  • determining that an administrative transaction file has been prepared by a practice management program, wherein the administrative transaction file includes a predetermined file attribute specified by administrative transaction file configuration data that includes a plurality of predetermined file attributes associated with payer identification information for multiple payers;

    determining, using the predetermined file attribute of the transaction file, payer identification information for a selected payer associated with the transaction file from the payer identification information for multiple payers;

    determining, using the payer identification information for the selected payer, payer communication data for the selected payer;

    initiating transmission of the transaction file from a hardware implemented direct connectivity gateway to the selected payer of the multiple payers using the determined payer communication data, thereby bypassing transaction file processing intermediaries;

    receiving, at the hardware implemented direct connectivity gateway, a response from the selected payer to the transmission of the transaction file; and

    configuring the response for the practice management program by modifying attributes of the response for automated processing by the practice management program.

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