System and Method for Electronically Monitoring, Alerting, and Evaluating Changes in a Health Care Payor Policy

摘要

In one or more embodiments, a contract management system provides an alert sub-utility that includes web-based data mining tools to automatically detect changes to a carrier's website and a notification sub-utility for packaging and communicating these changes. These data mining tools parse through XML tags nested within a tree of the carrier's website and determine whether any changes have been made to the web document. These XML tags allow the data mining tool to focus its efforts in extracting particular data of interest. Once the changes of interest have been extracted, the notification sub-utility of one or more embodiments of the present invention creates and communicates an alert to the healthcare provider. The methods and systems of one or more preferred embodiments provide healthcare providers with a more focused and timely alert of changes to a carrier's policy. Further, they provide the health care provider with historical revenue data in combination with the policy change alerts.