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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 30, 2014
Filed:
Jul. 09, 2009
Dawn M. Nidy, Belmont, CA (US);
Richard Altinger, Los Altos, CA (US);
Muhammet Serdar Akin, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Lisa Herrup Rogers, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Dawn M. Nidy, Belmont, CA (US);
Richard Altinger, Los Altos, CA (US);
Muhammet Serdar Akin, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Lisa Herrup Rogers, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Intuit Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
A method and system for providing healthcare service appointment time and cost estimates at the time of scheduling whereby a healthcare services database is created that includes: data indicating standardized codes associated healthcare services; data indicating the average time associated with healthcare services; data indicating the average cost of the healthcare services. One or more screening questions to be asked a patient at the time of scheduling a healthcare service appointment are then generated that indicate which, if any, of the healthcare services in the healthcare services database may be needed by the patient at the healthcare services appointment. The data in the healthcare services database is then used to schedule a healthcare service appointment for the given patient having an allocated time based on the average appointment time associated with the needed healthcare service and, in one example, the patient is provided an estimate of the cost of the healthcare service appointment based on the average cost of the needed healthcare service appointment at the time the healthcare service appointment is scheduled.