Assured Payments for Health Care Plans

摘要

A method comprises the steps of: receiving, at a host computer, a request from a purchaser for payment authorization for a charge for an item; determining whether said item qualifies for payment of a discounted amount of the item charge; receiving at the host computer a request from a provider for payment of the item charge; identifying a funding source of the purchaser from which to draw funds for payment of the item charge; and causing the funding source to be debited for at least a portion of the discounted amount of the item charge based on the payment authorization.