341 results about "Medical expenses" patented technology

A method for providing insurance coverage to a subscriber comprises offering an insurance policy to said subscriber wherein said insurance policy comprises providing allowances to pay for one or more expenses covered by said insurance policy and providing monetary credits to said subscriber for any unused portion of a given allowance where said monetary credits can be used to cover the cost of a subsequent allowed expense. The insurance policy may be a pharmacy benefits plan. The covered expenses may be pharmacy expenses. The allowed expenses may be medical expenses which qualify under section 213 of the US Internal Revenue code for payment by an employer without said subscriber having to declare said payment as taxable income.

The present invention relates to a method and system for processing transactions involving accounts for reimbursing medical expenses or patient responsible balances, wherein the accounts may be handled by multiple payors having multiple transaction substantiation requirements. Examples of such accounts include flexible spending accounts, health reimbursement arrangement accounts, medical savings account, health savings account and the like. The system and method of the present invention allow an employer that uses multiple payors for administering the aforementioned accounts to distinguish its employees-based on their associated payors in order to determine the proper transaction substantiation requirement per each employee and associated payor without having required to collect payor data at the employee level.

The invention discloses a mobile phone appointment guiding payment system for medical diagnosis, comprising a mobile phone termination, a server, a hospital information system and a bank, social security and third party payment interface, wherein the hospital information system comprises an appointment registration subsystem and a medical expense payment subsystem; the mobile phone termination is connected with the server in a communication way; the server is connected with the hospital information system and the bank, social security and third party payment interface in a wireless communication way; and the mobile phone termination comprises an out-patient appointment module, a diagnosis guiding module and a medical expense payment module, wherein the out-patient appointment module is used for importing the appointment registration subsystem of the hospital information system after identity authentication and displaying through a user interface and selecting an appointment, the diagnosis guiding module is used for displaying medical expense information and diagnosis steps and guiding a user to pay medical expenses according to the diagnosis steps and finish the diagnosis process, and the medical expense payment module is used for binding various bank cards or third part payment account numbers and communicating with the medical expense payment subsystem to finish medical expense payment subsystem. The mobile phone appointment guiding payment system is convenient to operate, high in work efficiency and strong in practical applicability.

The invention provides a health-care management method and a health-care management system for realizing the method. The method and the system analyze a healthy state of a user according to the demand of the user and the latest information, constitute an individualized and adjustable health-care management proposal, and periodically remind the user to carry out corresponding health-care activity according to the health-care management proposal to ensure that the health-care management proposal for the user can be implemented as plan. By the method and the system, the user can know self health condition in time so as to realize onset early warning to avoid delaying treatment time. The method and the system can be naturally integrated into daily life of the user so that the personal health management is simple and convenient. And the method and the system have expandability, namely can be adaptively adjusted to support a new application environment such as a new instant messaging mode or a health-care information analyzing method. The method and the system can realize instant health management so as to improve personal health level, reduce personal sick rate and reduce personal health medical expenses.

A computer-implemented method and system to facilitate a purchase utilizing a tax-advantaged account. A request for payment for an item is received at a host computer. The item comprises any item that qualifies for pre-tax treatment, including, but not limited to: a medical expense; a dental expense; a dependent care expense; a childcare expense; a work-related parking expense; and a work-related transportation expense. The system determines whether the item qualifies for pre-tax treatment. If the item qualifies for pre-tax treatment, then the tax-advantaged account is debited for at least a portion of the purchasing amount of the item based on the payment request.

A method for analyzing and comparing data from various sources, extracting data from the various sources, converting the data into a particular format, and using that data to generate data records, data documents, and / or reports to assist in isolating medical expenses incurred as a result of automobile accidents and further processing the data to identify whether or not potential third parties may be liable / responsible for the medical expenses incurred from the specific automobile accident.

A medical data analysis service is provided. The service may be implemented as an on-line service using a data analysis server. The data analysis server may maintain patient databases and a community database. Each patient database may be populated with patient medical expense data such as medical bills from health care providers and insurance statements from insurance providers. The service analyzes the data in the databases to identify potential errors. The system detects errors in billing and insurance coverage and enables the patient to query medical expense data. The system enables patient's notes relating to these services to be easily tracked, queried and shared. The system enables a patient to derive additional knowledge from the medical expense and insurance coverage data. This knowledge can be queried by the patient. The system enables a patient to derive more knowledge from collective patient medical expense and insurance coverage data and annotations.

The invention provides a medical resource and information sharing system and server and an application method thereof used for implementing medical resources and information sharing. The medical resource and information sharing system comprises multiple medical devices 1041 distributed in multiple regions and provided with operating computers 1042 and multiple servers 1021 distributed in the multiple regions, and the medical devices 1041 and the servers 1021 are connected through the internet; the medical devices 1041 distributed in the multiple regions are mapped into a device cloud 101; the servers 1021 distributed the regions are mapped into one regional cloud 102. The servers 1021 in the regional cloud 102 are used for collecting and storing information of the medical devices 1041 in the device cloud 101, so that resource and information sharing can be realized among different medical devices 1041. By the application of the medical resource and information sharing system and server and the application method thereof, medical resource and information sharing can be realized, and medical expenses can be reduced.

The invention relates to a medical expense information processing method. The method is characterized by comprising the steps of receiving medical information; judging whether the medical information conforms to a case classification standard or not, if so, querying a first expense information threshold range corresponding to a first case category to which the medical information conforms, judging whether the medical information conforms to rational drug use regulations or not, if so, extracting medical expense information from the medical information, judging whether the medical expense information is contained in the first expense information threshold range or not, if not, outputting abnormal result information; if the medical information does not conform to the rational drug use regulations, outputting abnormal result information; if the medical information does not conform to the case classification standard, bringing the medical information into a new second disease category, and setting a second expense information threshold range for the second disease category; and extracting medical expense information from the medical information, judging whether the medical expense information is contained in the second expense information threshold range or not, and if not, outputting abnormal result information.

A business method that provides for payment of medical expenses for members of an association, comprising, establishing contractual agreements between the association and a multiplicity of medical service providers that are obligated to provide medical services to members of the association at rates that are pre-negotiated or otherwise agreed to with the association; extending to members of the association a line of credit to be used to pay for medical services received from any of said medical service providers; paying said medical service providers for services rendered to said member according to the prenegotiated or otherwise agreed to rate schedule; charging the member's account for payments made to a medical service provider for services received by the member; and receiving reimbursement from the member for amounts so charged to the member's account.

The invention relates to a percutaneous aortic valve replacement surgery conveying device with valve positioning function, which is characterized by comprising a conveying rod (1), a sheath pipe (5), a circular ring (3), positioning rods (2) and circular ring control cables (4), wherein the circular ring (3) is sheathed on the lower end of the percutaneous aortic valve replacement surgery conveying rod (1) and located in the conveying sheath pipe (5); the quantity of the positioning rods (2) is at least two, and one end of each positioning rod (2) is hinged with the conveying rod (1); and the quantity of the circular ring control cables (4) is at least two, the lower end of each circular ring control cable (4) is provided with a structure for supporting the circular ring (3), and the upper end of each circular ring control cable (4) stretches out of the human body along the axial direction of the conveying rod (1). The conveying device can play good auxiliary function on positioning the transplanted valve, increase the success rate of percutaneous aortic valve replacement surgery and reduce surgery difficulty and postoperative complications; the conveying device can also reduce surgery pain and risk for patients and decreases medical expenses.

The invention discloses a multipoint medical safety calling information system which comprises a plurality of bedside voice extension units, a plurality of doorway voice extension units, a plurality of medical voice extension units and a PC (personal computer) server. The bedside voice extension units are positioned on bedsides of patients, the doorway voice extension units are positioned at doorways of wards, the medical voice extension units are positioned at nursing stations or doctor offices, and the PC server is in communication connection with the bedside voice extension units, the doorway voice extension units and the medical voice extension units. Since the PC server is in communication connection with the bedside voice extension units, the doorway voice extension units and the medical voice extension units, multipoint calling requests of multiple patients is realized, the calling requests can be responded by multiple extension units, and the multiple calling requests can be subjected to priority setting by the PC server to guarantee that emergency calling requests can be handled timely, so that intelligence level of a medical calling system is promoted. Further, the PC server is connected with a hospital information system, patients can inquire relevant information such as medical expenses and friendly prompts by themselves, and information service functions of the medical calling system are expanded.

The invention relates to a medical expense payment method and system based on a blockchain. The method comprises the following steps that: through a payment terminal, collecting medical expense payment information, and utilizing the medical expense payment information to generate a block; through the payment terminal, broadcasting the block to a plurality of authorized supervision terminals, and forming the blockchain by a plurality of blocks; through the supervision terminal, obtaining the blockchain, and checking the blockchain; and if the blockchain does not pass the checking, determining that the block of which the medical expense payment information is tampered is in the presence in the blockchain. By use of the method, the problem of complex refunding since multiple parties have account checking errors can be avoided, and the safety of the medical expense payment is improved.

The present invention relates to a method for generating medical expense limitation rules, comprising: step 1, receiving first medical expense limitation information; step 2, analyzing the first medical expense limitation information, extracting first limitation subject information and first limitation range information; step 3. Classify the first medical expense restriction information according to the first restriction subject information, and generate the first classification restriction information; Step 4, layer the first classification restriction information according to the first restriction range information, and create the first classification for each layer The limit information sets the cost information threshold range, and generates the first medical cost limit rule. The medical expense limitation rules generated by the method for generating medical expense limitation rules provided by the present invention have clear categories and clear layers, and can manage and control medical expenses reasonably and scientifically, thereby realizing cost reduction and efficiency increase of medical insurance expenses.

The method of the invention provides incentives for medical scheme members to minimize medical expenses both by responsible use of the benefits of the scheme, and also by offering positive incentives to members to adopt a healthy lifestyle and to make use of preventative procedures and pretreatment medical advice facilities. A number of health-related facilities and / or services (such as membership of health clubs, gymnasiums or fitness programs) are offered to the medical scheme members, and the members are allocated points for using these facilities. Members are also allocated points for using predetermined preventive medical procedures and medical advice services. Rewards are allocated to members based on their points accrued, and the reward may include a payback of premium payments.

Techniques and apparatus for managing contributions to an accruable health spending account in an employer-sponsored plan offering a member an employer-funded defined contribution, at least one insurance premium option and the ability to specify an allocation of the defined contribution for payment of option premiums and, in turn, a directed contribution amount designated to such accruable account are disclosed. The accruable account may be used to reimburse the member for qualified medical expenses, and the member may pay any premium shortfall using a tax-advantaged process such as a premium only payment plan. Also disclosed are techniques and apparatus directed to presenting member-specific out-of-pocket expenses for a selected procedure offered by at least one health-care provider.

The invention discloses a clinical pathway based medical auxiliary system and a method. The method includes steps: acquiring information of a patient; matching clinical pathway information corresponding to a target disease from a preset clinical pathway database according to the target disease; correcting clinical pathway decision information of the patient according to the information of the patient and the clinical pathway information corresponding to the target disease; monitoring execution conditions of the clinical pathway decision information of the patient according to the clinical pathway decision information. In a process of adopting the clinical pathway information for guiding diagnosis and treatment, when the patient has a specific symptom, a practical case is combined with the clinical pathway information, the clinical pathway information is corrected to form the clinical pathway decision information of the patient, and accordingly optimal treatment of the practical case is realized; in a process of clinical pathway decision information execution, execution conditions of each node are monitored, and effectiveness in medical cost control, medical expense reduction and increase of utilization rate of medical resources is realized according to different patient conditions.

The invention relates to a medical expense paying method and system. The method comprises steps of acquiring a patient identifier, scanning a medical insurance two-dimensional code which is displayedby a paying terminal and corresponds to the patient identifier and recognizing a medical insurance account carried in the medical insurance two-dimensional code; according to the patient identifier, acquiring the current medical treatment project and a drug list; and by use of the medical treatment project, the drug list and the medical treatment account, generating a paying request, sending the paying request to a medical insurance server so as to allow the medical insurance server to calculate the current medical expense according to the medical treatment project and the drug list, and through the medical insurance account, paying the current medical expense. According to the invention, a user is capable of carrying out medical expense paying without carrying a medical insurance card with himself or herself.

The invention belongs to the field of intelligent medical treatment, and discloses a doctor-patient cooperation informationized platform system with an informationized medical mode. The system has advantages of creating an integrated medical mode based on system evaluation, and developing a corresponding information module; creating a patient decision informationized supporting platform; discussing influence of a mobile integrated medical mode based on system evaluation to patient diagnosis experience in a treatment-and-diagnosis process; and discussing the influence of a patient medical decision informationized supporting system to hospital operation quality and efficiency. The doctor-patient cooperation informationized platform system has advantages of truly realizing serving the patient, reducing medical expense, improving medical efficiency and medical quality; an information facility is used for building a patient diagnosis-and-treatment information platform which is shared by a medical team in real time, thereby supplying a convenient and high-efficiency channel for team medical treatment execution, and supplying a researching information technology supporting platform for multiple-position working of a doctor. A doctor-patient cooperative decision platform is built, thereby sufficiently satisfying an informed heal-as-one right of the patient, reducing medical dispute rate and improving patient satisfaction degree.

The invention discloses a method, system and device for managing a rule base of a reasonable medication system. The method comprises the steps of: marking each reasonable medication rule in a drug usedatabase according to the source and content of the rule, selecting a proper reasonable medication rule by the user according to the own business requirement and the mark, generating a user-defined reasonable medication rule library meeting the user requirement, and applying the user-defined reasonable medication rule library to the reasonable medication system of the user. According to the method, the system and the device for managing a rule base of a reasonable medication system, the user can select a data set meeting own requirements as a built-in rule standard source of the medication management and control system based on the current situation of reasonable medication of different business units, and the data set can be adjusted in real time, so that a reasonable medication informatization rule management system is quickly established by taking a reasonable medication management and control requirement as a target, and the aims of improving the medication safety of a patient, improving the medical quality, reducing unreasonable medical expenses and reasonably distributing medical resources are fulfilled.

The invention relates to an image report based CT image emphysema automatic labeling method. The method includes the following steps: (1) accomplishing an image report, CT image sequence inputting andimage standardization preprocessing in an input module; (2) extracting the characteristic information, namely the information about emphysema description, in the image report in a phonetic and semantic extraction module according to the technical and rule pattern matching technology of a dictionary; (3) performing regional division on a lung in an emphysema focus extraction module, and performingcluster analysis in a lung area to extract emphysema focus; and (4) obtaining the CT threshold value of each area through calculation according to calculating results of the step 3, labelling the emphysema area of each area in an output and display module, displaying the emphysema areas in a CT image, and giving a quantitative analysis report of lung function. The advantages of the method are that processes during emphysema diagnosis and treatment can be simplified, and medical expenses of patients can be reduced.

The invention relates to a medical expense control method and device. The method comprises steps of acquiring to-be-detected medical treatment project information; acquiring a clinic path; judging whether a to-be-estimated project identifier is a project identifier of a selectable medical treatment project information set or a compulsory medical treatment project information set, and if yes, acquiring estimated expense corresponding to the selectable medical treatment project information set; comparing the expense of a to-be-detected medical treatment project with the estimated expense, and according to a comparison result, generating corresponding expense prompting information so as to control the expense of the to-be-detected medical treatment project. According to the invention, in a treatment process, according to the clinic path, the total expense of the selectable medical treatment project can be controlled, and the whole medical treatment expense of the current clinic path can be controlled; unnecessary medical treatment expense is avoided; expense paid by a patient and expense of health insurance reimbursement can be reduced; and utilization rate of medical treatment resources is improved.

The invention discloses a quality monitoring method and device for insurance cooperative hospitals, a storage medium and a terminal, relates to the data processing technology field and mainly solves aproblem that different patients have different evaluations of medical service items and can not reasonably provide insurance companies with the accurate information about costs, services and the medical quality. The method comprises steps that claims data of different cooperative hospitals for the insured personnel and the pre-inputted evaluation information of the cooperative hospitals are acquired; according to disease categories, disease subtypes and treatment strategies, diagnosis disease-related group DRGs grouping of the claims data is carried out, and expected values of the medical expenses are determined; the cost consumption index and the time consumption index in the evaluation information are analyzed; predictive classification is carried out according to the expected values ofthe medical expenses of the different cooperative hospitals, the cost consumption index and the time consumption index, and the quality results of the cooperative hospitals are determined. The methodis advantaged in that the method is suitable for carrying out quality monitoring of the insurance cooperative hospitals.

The invention relates to the field of molecular medicine, and in particular relates to a gene chip for leukemia diagnosis and treatment. The chip contains oligonucleotide probes with sequences in SEQ ID NO:1-137. The chip has the following beneficial effects that: the actual demands in the blood system tumor diagnosis and treatment process in China are met; the gene chip is customized by screening key indicators in examination indicators in leukemia morphology, immunology, cytogenetics and molecular biology; and the multifunctional gene chip integrates early diagnosis, early warning, prevention and diagnosis and treatment of leukemia and can improve the individual diagnosis efficiency and treatment effect of leukemia, shorten the length of stay, reduce the medical expenses and improve the technical levels of the primary-level medical and health institutions.

The invention relates to a medical benefit fund actuarial prediction method and device. The method comprises the steps that historical basic medical insurance structure data, historical insured demographic data and historical medical expense data sent by a terminal are received; base year insured demographic data is acquired according to the historical insured demographic data, a historical insured demographic average growth rate is calculated, and a predicted year insured population is calculated according to the base year insured demographic data and the historical insured demographic average growth rate; predicted year medical benefit fund inflow is determined according to the predicted year insured population and the historical basic medical insurance structure data; predicted year medical benefit fund outflow is determined according to the predicted year insured population and the historical medical expense data; and when the predicted year medical benefit fund inflow is smaller than the predicted year medical benefit fund outflow, risk prompt information is sent to the terminal. Through the medical benefit fund actuarial prediction, medical benefit fund actuarial early warning analysis efficiency is greatly improved, and prediction precision is effectively guaranteed.

The invention discloses antifungal application of fraxetin, belonging to the technical field of medicines. In-vitro experiments show that fraxetin has relatively good inhibition effect to the fungi, is capable of restoring the effect of an antifungal drug, namely fluconazole to drug-resistant fungi and therefore can be taken as the antifungal drug and a synergist for the antifungal drug. Accordingto the antifungal application, the new use of fraxetin is opened up, fraxetin is used as the antifungal drug and the synergist for the antifungal drug, a new candidate drug is provided for the fungustreatment, and the antifungal effects of existing drugs are improved. Under the conditions that clinical fungus drug resistance becomes common increasingly and the drug resistance level becomes serious increasingly, the effect of an antifungal drug to the drug-resistant fungi is restored, and the use dosage of the antifungal drug is reduced, so that the medical expense of a patient is saved, andthe toxic and side effects of the drugs are reduced.

The invention relates to a medical service payment system based on electronic payment. The medical service payment system comprises an electronic payment terminal. The medical service payment system is characterized in that the electronic payment terminal is respectively in network connection with a medical institution server and a payment institution server through a payment service provider. The medical service payment system based on the electronic payment achieves data exchange of expense electronic clearing among a medical institution, a user and a payment institution through the payment service provider, as long as an electronic payment terminal is provided with the help of the internet, medical expense payment at any time and at any where can be achieved, the operation is simple, expense payment efficiency is high, and practicability is strong.

The invention discloses a stomach food diverter which comprises a membrane releasing ball, ball releasing wires, a membrane pipe, a first bracket, an outer shell, an inner shell, a pushing pipe and a bracket pipe, wherein the outer shell, the inner shell, the pushing pipe and the bracket pipe are sheathed together from outside to inside; one end of the inner shell, one end of the pushing pipe and one end of the bracket pipe are positioned in the outer shell and extend out of an oral cavity, and the other end of the inner shell, the other end of the pushing pipe and the other end of the bracket pipe extend out of the outer shell; one end of the outer shell is abutted against the membrane releasing ball; one end of the pushing pipe and one end of the membrane pipe are connected with the membrane releasing ball by the ball releasing wires; the membrane pipe in a folded shape is positioned in the outer shell; the first bracket is connected with the other end of the membrane pipe and positioned on the bracket pipe. The stomach food diverter disclosed by the invention has the advantages of simple structure, low manufacturing cost, convenience in operation and convenience in popularization and use. Additionally, a treatment effect of a stomach diversion operation is achieved without performing the operation on a patient, the pain of the patient is relieved, and medical expenses are reduced for the patient. In addition, a certain weight loss effect on an obese patient is achieved.

The invention discloses a remaining needle with slow release positive pressure. The remaining needle comprises a remaining needle assembly, a double-cavity catheter, a catheter clip, a Y-shaped positive pressure connector and a liquid storage device. The remaining needle assembly comprises a needle protection sleeve, a catheter assembly and a needle assembly. The double-cavity catheter is sleeved with the catheter clip. The two ends of the double-cavity catheter are firmly connected with a Y-shaped inclined connector and a Y-shaped positive pressure connector base lower end connector of the catheter assembly of the remaining needle assembly respectively. The liquid storage device is connected to an inclined connector of a Y-shaped positive pressure connector in a screwed mode. The remaining needle is characterized in that the double-cavity catheter is provided with a large cavity and a small cavity, the large cavity is a conventional infusion passageway, the small cavity has the tiny aperture, pressure is formed for the positive pressure connector and the liquid storage device of the remaining needle through released hydraulic pressure in the remaining process after the large cavity is clamped and closed through the catheter clip so that liquid medicine can slowly permeate the passageway, and in the remaining process, the liquid medicine slowly flows out of micro holes of the slow release catheter and permeates a blood vessel so that thrombosis can be prevented from being formed. The safety use of the remaining needle can be prolonged, apparatuses consumed for tube sealing can be eliminated, and medical expenses can be reduced.