Patents by Inventor Robert Nease

Robert Nease has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • System and method for optimizing benefit plan designs
    Patent number: 7376574
    Abstract: A computer-based system and method to enable a benefit plan sponsor to design benefit plans for a given participant population by enabling the plan designer to select the plan design options that maximize the perceived benefit to the participant population subject to a cost constraint. The system prioritizes plan design options of such plans according to the costs of these options and the perceived benefits of these options for the participant population. Estimates of perceived benefit are based upon survey data from a sample of the given population or from historical survey data from population samples exhibiting analogous demographic characteristics to the given participant population regarding potential plan design options or analogous benefit plan design options.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 20, 2008
    Assignee: Express Scripts, Inc.
    Inventors: Barrett Toan, Robert Nease
  • System and method for optimizing benefit plan designs
    Publication number: 20020095316
    Abstract: A computer-based system and method to enable a benefit plan sponsor to design benefit plans for a given participant population by enabling the plan designer to select the plan design options that maximize the perceived benefit to the participant population subject to a cost constraint. The system prioritizes plan design options of such plans according to the costs of these options and the perceived benefits of these options for the participant population. Estimates of perceived benefit are based upon survey data from a sample of the given population or from historical survey data from population samples exhibiting analogous demographic characteristics to the given participant population regarding potential plan design options or analogous benefit plan design options.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2001
    Publication date: July 18, 2002
    Inventors: Barrett Toan, Robert Nease