Patent ID: 7996243
Filing Date: 2011-08-09
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, the method embodied in a set of machine-readable instructions executed on a 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 alignment adjudication date; calculating a final alignment date; wherein the final alignment date is different from at least one of the refill dates associated with one of the plurality of prescriptions for the customer determining via the processor, 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 processor a short-fill day supply for any prescription requiring a short fill; determining via the processor a date by which the customer will receive the short fill for any prescription requiring a short fill; determining via the processor, for any prescription requiring a short fill, whether the customer will exhaust the remaining day supply of the medication before the date by which the customer will receive the short fill for the prescription; calculating via the 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 short fill is not possible; performing the following if one or more prescriptions are marked: performing the following for each of the selected prescriptions if none of the prescriptions are marked;