Health care incentive system and method for operating a health care incentive system
OwnerKimberly Horn, Jodie Southwell +1inventors
InventorsKimberly Horn, Jodie Southwell, Cheryl Osentoski
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Abstract
A health care incentive system comprises a means for accumulating health care information and means for analyzing the health care information in order to develop a set of commitments for the individual in the health incentive program. If the individual achieves the commitments over a predetermined period of time, an incentive is provided to the individual.
Claims30
A health care incentive system for providing an incentive to an individual participating in a health care plan comprising:
- a data warehouse for storing a health claim information and an individual commitment;
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- a software means for comparing the health claim information with the individual commitment to determine whether the individual commitment was fulfilled.
A method for operating a health care incentive system to provide an incentive to an individual in a health care plan comprising:
- determining a commitment for the individual;
- tracking a performance of the individual relative to the commitment by analyzing health claim information;
- and providing the incentive to the individual if the individual attains the commitment.
An information model comprising:
- a commitment object maintaining a commitment of an individual;
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- a member commitment status object for maintaining a status of the commitment with respect to the individual.
A method of operating a health care incentive system comprising:
- setting a commitment for an individual in a health plan;
- storing the commitment in a data warehouse;
- obtaining claim information for the individual;
- analyzing the claim information to determine if the individual obtained the commitment;
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- providing an incentive to the individual is the individual obtained the commitment.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.