Insurance claim association method and apparatus

摘要

A computer-based insurance claim processing system (500) provides for the formation and segregated storage of associations (510) that link various active insurance claims (506) to one another. In addition, if desired, the associations can comprise additional information regarding, for example, the nature or type of association and/or other information as a user may wish to include to inform, control, or otherwise characterize the association and/or the associated claims.

主权项

1. A method for use with a computer-based insurance claim processing system having a plurality of discrete active insurance claims stored therein, the method comprising:
receiving, via a user interface of the computer-based insurance claim processing system, a first association criteria from a user; linking a first subset of the plurality of discrete active insurance claims, stored in a database of the computer-based insurance claim processing system, based on the first association criteria, wherein a first association is linked with the first subset of the plurality of discrete active insurance claims; storing, in a memory, the first association criteria, wherein the memory is in a separate location from the storage of information that corresponds to the discrete active insurance claims; storing, in the memory, first additional information relating to the first association criteria, wherein the first additional information characterizes a type of association corresponding to the first association criteria; receiving, via the user interface of the computer-based insurance claim processing system, a second association criteria from the user; linking a second subset of the plurality of discrete active insurance claims, stored in the database of the computer-based insurance claim processing system, based on the second association criteria, wherein a second association is linked with the second subset of the plurality of discrete active insurance claims; storing, in the memory, the second association criteria; storing, in the memory, second additional information relating to the second association criteria, wherein the second additional information characterizes a type of association corresponding to the second association criteria; selecting, via the user interface, the first association or the second association; and presenting to the user, via the user interface, the corresponding subset of discrete active insurance claims associated with the selected association.