Health incentive management for groups
AssigneeWellpoint, Inc.
InventorsMichael D. Parkinson, Charlton Clinton Tooke, III, Charles W. Pomeroy, Douglas M. Kronenberg
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Abstract
A method of presenting information to an administrator. The method includes the steps of accessing a library of actual expenditures on health care by an organization, generating a baseline based on the actual expenditures, enabling an administrator to reconfigure a health benefit plan and generating a display with impact information resulting from the administrator reconfiguring the health benefit plan. A method of optimizing a set of health incentives for an organization is also provided.
Claims30
A method of presenting information to an administrator, the method comprising:
- (a) accessing a library of actual expenditures on health care by an organization;
- (b) generating a baseline based on the actual expenditures;
- (c) enabling the administrator to reconfigure a health benefit plan;
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- (d) generating a display with impact information resulting from the administrator reconfiguring the health benefit plan.
A method of optimizing a set of health incentives for an organization, the organization having an administrator, the method comprising:
- (a) accessing a library of actual expenditures on health care by the organization;
- (b) generating a baseline based on the actual expenditures;
- (c) enabling the administrator to reconfigure a health benefit plan by enabling the administrator to configure a set of incentives;
- (d) enabling the administrator to assess projected results based on the set of incentives;
- (e) generating a display with impact information resulting from the administrator reconfiguring the health benefit plan;
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- (f) selecting an optimal set of incentives through the use of the impact information generated in step (e).
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.