Abstract: A business method for billing customers for alternative botanical, supplemental and homeopathic remedies by electronically creating unique codes for these remedies and an electronic connection to the universal product codes and the national drug codes.

Abstract: A system for encoding and encompassing healthcare provider billing, more particularly, a computer assisted network for encoding, documenting and processing claims for payment of specific procedures by alternative therapy providers, grouped geographically and by specialty. The system employs a computer accessing three main databases for identifying, encoding and calculation of average costs of provider services. A resulting Alternative Billing Code (ABC) is produced which can be compared and correlated with insurance industry standard codes. The ABC has the attribute of conveying multiple levels of information through alphanumeric characters. The ABC is an assembly of a series of terms and sub-terms from databases, namely Alternative Practice Type (APT), Standard Alternative Procedure Descriptions (SAPDs), Provider Data (PD) and RVU (Relative Value Unit) databases.