A computer-implemented method for profiling medical claims to assist health care managers in determining the cost-efficiency and service quality of health care providers. The method allows an objective means for measuring and quantifying health care services. An episode treatment group (ETG) is a patient...http://www.google.com/patents/US20020173989?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US20020173989 - Computer-implemented method for grouping medical claims into episode treatment groups