US Patent Issued to Elevance Health on Dec. 2 for "System and method for decreasing turnaround for pre-authorizations using a smart request for information model" (Illinois, Connecticut, Georgia, Ohio, New Mexico Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,394, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Elevance Health Inc. (Indianapolis).

"System and method for decreasing turnaround for pre-authorizations using a smart request for information model" was invented by Jennifer M. Young (Cincinnati), Sharon M. Goist (Alamogordo, N.M.), Jordan S. Firfer (Buffalo Grove, Ill.), Jayant Chaudhuri (Suwanee, Ga.), Rakeshkumar Patel (Glastonbury, Conn.) and Soham Chakravarti (Suwanee, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for reducing pre-authorization turnaround time is disclosed. The method includes, at a database, receiving historical data including a historical pre-authorization request and clini...