Patent ID: 8050942
Filing Date: 2011-11-01
Classification: G06Q,G16H

Abstract:
1. A method for aligning refill dates associated with a plurality of prescriptions for a customer to a single alignment date, each prescription for a medication, at least a portion of the method embodied in a set of machine-readable instructions executed on a computer processor and stored on a tangible medium, the method comprising: receiving a selection of a plurality of prescriptions to align; determining, for each of the plurality of selected prescriptions, a remaining day supply, the remaining day supply indicative of a number of days of the medication the customer has remaining; calculating a next adjudication date for each of the plurality of selected prescriptions; selecting as a latest adjudication date, from the plurality of calculated next adjudication dates, the next adjudication date occurring on the latest date; calculating an earliest final alignment date; receiving a selection of a final alignment date occurring on or after the earliest final alignment date; calculating an alignment adjudication date; determining, for each of the plurality of selected prescriptions, whether a short fill is required so that the customer does not exhaust the remaining day supply of the medication before the final alignment date; calculating via the computer processor a short-fill day supply for any prescription requiring a short fill; determining via the computer processor a date by which the customer will receive the short fill for any prescription requiring a short-fill; determining via the computer processor, for any prescription requiring a short fill, whether the customer will receive the short fill for the prescription before the date by which the customer will exhaust the remaining day supply of the medication; calculating via the computer processor a short-fill quantity for any prescription for which the customer will receive the required short fill for the prescription prior to exhausting the remaining day supply of the medication; marking any prescription for which a short fill is required, but for which the customer cannot receive the required short fill for the prescription before exhausting the remaining day supply of the medication corresponding to the prescription; performing the following if one or more prescriptions are marked: recalculating via the computer processor the short-fill day supply for any prescription requiring a short fill; adjudicating via the computer processor each of the selected prescriptions on or after the recalculated alignment adjudication date; filling each of the selected prescriptions; and providing to the customer by the second final alignment date each of the medications corresponding to the selected prescriptions; and performing, for each of the selected prescriptions, the following if none of the prescriptions are marked;