MEDICAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD

摘要

A system and method is provided wherein managed care organizations (MCO) are invoiced directly by an entity which provides reports and/or data to the patient, to the patient's healthcare provider and to the patient's MCO, on a periodic basis. The reports are based on patient glucose or other disease monitoring tests inputted to a patient test analyzer monitor uniquely identified to the patient. The monitor is programmed to communicate over telephone lines or other communication system to the entity as frequently as nightly each day's tests with time and date stamps for each test. The entity optionally causes test units to be shipped directly to the patient as needed by monitoring patient supplies through the transmitted tests. Test results are correlated in reports to each patient and his or her healthcare provider and MCO. The reports provide timely information as to the status of the patient's control of the disease and results in timely provided therapy to the patient based on such current reporting, encouraging compliance by the patient.. The MCO is billed periodically by the entity for the reports and all test units, if any, eliminating middlemen and improving administrative efficiency.