Medical payment system
US4858121A · kind A · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Dec 12, 1986 |
| Grant date | Aug 15, 1989 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Dec 12, 2006 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG16H15/00
- WIPO fieldIT methods for management
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A plurality of remote terminals (A) are each disposed in a physician's office and are connected by telephone lines or other electronic data communication with a central processing system (B). Each terminal includes a data entry key board (10) and a magnetic tape reader (12) for entering physician, patient, medical service, insurance, and other medically related data. The entered data is processed by a terminal processor (20) to incorporate previously stored data from an electronic data memory and to transfer and store entered medical transaction data to memory. The central processing system includes a physician file for storing participating physician identifications for verifying received physician information data, a patient memory for storing participating patient data for verifying received patient identification data, an insurance company file for storing appropriate format for medical claims for each of a plurality of participating insurance companies, and a claims file for storing a record of medical insurance claims processed. A central processing computer processes the received data and formats it into the approriate format for a medical claim to the identified insurance c…
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