Patent ID: 11875415
Assignee: FLIPT, LLC
Field: Medical technology (Instruments)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 9:
10. A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing instructions for directing a processor to perform a process, the process comprising:
(a) receiving, at a device functioning as an alternative pharmacy benefit manager (APBM) and from a pharmacy device via a prescription processing computer network dedicated to processing requests for fulfillment of pharmaceutical prescriptions, a first data, the first data comprising (i) a request for fulfillment of a prescription at a pharmacy corresponding to the pharmacy device; (ii) a first BIN/PCN identifier that had caused the pharmacy to transmit the first data to the system, and (iii) a user identifier identifying a user associated with the request;
(b) selecting one of the following options: (i) fulfilling the prescription based on a first pricing contract previously established with the pharmacy; and (ii) utilizing at least one second pricing contract of at least one of a plurality of third party pharmacy benefit managers for fulfillment of the prescription;
(c) only if option (ii) in (b) is selected, performing (d)—(f), otherwise utilize the first pricing contract for fulfillment of the prescription without transmitting the first data to any of the plurality of third party pharmacy benefit managers for fulfillment of the prescription;
(d) identifying one of the plurality of third party pharmacy benefit managers, for the fulfillment of the prescription;
(e) modifying the first data by replacing the first BIN/PCN identifier with a second BIN/PCN identifier that corresponds to one of the plurality of third party pharmacy benefit managers identified for fulfillment of the prescription, thereby generating a modified first data; and
(f) transmitting, via the prescription processing computer network, the modified first data to a device of the one of the plurality of third party pharmacy benefit managers identified for fulfillment of the prescription.