System, method and computer program product for enabling a customer to select a care path for treatment of a medical indication, to select providers based on quality and cost and to estimate medical costs

A system to generate at least one medical treatment care path in response to receiving a health condition and at least one medical outcome after treatment of the health condition, comprising:

• a computer processor configured to execute instructions to:
• receive identification of a health condition and a selection of at least one desired medical outcome after treatment of the health condition;
• identify one or more treatment care paths, each comprising a plurality of steps over a time range to achieve the selected at least one desired medical outcome, wherein at least one step within the plurality of steps comprises at least one medical service or treatment to achieve the desired medical outcome;
• for each of the at least one medical service or treatment in the one or more treatment care paths, identify one or more providers offering the medical service or treatment;
• for each of the one or more providers, provide a cost estimate for receiving the medical service or treatment;
• optimize the one or more treatment care paths at least based on ranking providers offering the at least one medical service or treatment within each of the one or more treatment care paths, wherein the providers are ranked from lowest provider cost estimate to highest provider cost estimate;
• determine an estimated cumulative total cost for the optimized one or more treatment care paths, the estimated cumulative total cost comprising an estimated cost to the consumer and an estimated cost to an insurance provider;
• determine at least estimated consumer costs for individual steps in the plurality of steps within each of the optimized one or more treatment care paths;
• identify where within the time range the estimated consumer costs for the individual steps will be incurred within each of the optimized one or more treatment care paths;
• and
• provide for display an indication of where the estimated consumer costs will be incurred within the time range.

A non-transitory computer readable medium storing instructions that when executed by a computer cause the computer to perform operations comprising:

• receiving identification of a health condition and a selection of at least one desired medical outcome after treatment of the health condition;
• identifying one or more treatment care paths, each comprising a plurality of steps over a time range to achieve the selected at least one desired medical outcome, wherein at least one step within the plurality of steps comprises at least one medical service or treatment to achieve the desired medical outcome;
• for each of the at least one medical service or treatment in the one or more treatment care paths, identifying one or more providers offering the medical service or treatment;
• for each of the one or more providers, providing a cost estimate for receiving the medical service or treatment;
• optimizing the one or more treatment care paths at least based on ranking providers offering the at least one medical service or treatment within each of the one or more treatment care paths, wherein the providers are ranked from lowest provider cost estimate to highest provider cost estimate;
• determining an estimated cumulative total cost for the optimized one or more treatment care paths, the estimated cumulative total cost comprising an estimated cost to the consumer and an estimated cost to an insurance provider;
• determining at least estimated consumer costs for individual steps in the plurality of steps within each of the optimized one or more treatment care paths;
• identifying where within the time range the estimated consumer costs for the individual steps will be incurred within each of the optimized one or more treatment care paths;
• and
• providing for display an indication of where the estimated consumer costs will be incurred within the time range.