System and method for benefit cost plan estimation

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United States of America Patent

APP PUB NO 20020169727A1
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09853206

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A computer-based method and system to enable a benefit plan sponsor to design a plurality of benefit plans to be offered to a given participant population and for determining the cost of sponsoring the plans for the participant population by predicting utilization for each of the plans based upon historical utilization data for the population, projected plan selections based upon presumed participant objectives, and/or survey or historical data from a sample of the given population or from preexisting statistical samples exhibiting analogous demographic characteristics to the given participant population relating to expected benefit utilization and plan preference criteria.

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EXPRESS SCRIPTS INCONE EXPRESS WAY ST LOUIS MO 63121

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Melnick, Steve St. Louis, MO 5 52
Rey-Giraud, Agnes Clarkson Valley, MO 4 103

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