20090094055 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING PRICE ESTIMATES FOR MEDICAL PROCEDURES - A system for providing price information for medical procedures. The system includes a user interface configured to receive patient information corresponding to a patient, an eligibility engine configured to send a health care benefit inquiry and receive a health care benefit response from an insurer or a clearinghouse for a plurality of insurers based on received patient information, and a pricing engine configured to request and receive price data for a particular medical procedure based on the received patient information. The user interface is further configured to present pricing information to a user based on the received health care benefit response and the received price data. | 04-09-2009 |