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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 12, 2013
Filed:
Nov. 26, 2008
Miriam Nga-shun VU, San Francisco, CA (US);
Lucinda Foss, San Francisco, CA (US);
Miriam Nga-Shun Vu, San Francisco, CA (US);
Lucinda Foss, San Francisco, CA (US);
Intuit Inc., Mounain View, CA (US);
Abstract
A system and method for establishing a healthcare network across small businesses whereby two or more small businesses and one or more healthcare insurance providers are enrolled in a small business employee healthcare network. The one or more healthcare insurance providers then offer one or more healthcare insurance plans through the small business employee healthcare network at initial bid prices. Employees of the enrolled small businesses are then provided an opportunity to view the one or more healthcare insurance plan offers. Interested employees of the enrolled small businesses then opt into one or more of the one or more healthcare insurance plan offers through the small business employee healthcare network. As the number, and/or the profile, of the employees that opt into a given one of the one or more healthcare insurance plan offers increases and/or changes, and/or in response to bids from enrolled competitor healthcare insurance providers, the one or more healthcare insurance providers can change the bid prices for the one or more healthcare insurance plan offers. After a specified time period, the healthcare insurance provider having offered the lowest bid is contracted to provide the one or more healthcare insurance plans, at the lowest bid price, to the employees that opted in.