Patent ID: 8731958
Filing Date: 2014-05-20
Classification: G06Q,G16H

Abstract:
1. A method of managing medication using an administering apparatus associated with a pharmacy, comprising: storing patient-unassigned medication from the pharmacy in the administering apparatus, wherein the stored medication is not assigned to any patient until the medication is actually administered; receiving a medication order at the pharmacy for a patient wherein the medication order includes a dosing regimen specific to a patient; and thereafter checking the medication order for interactions with other medications; and thereafter updating a patient record to indicate that the patient is to receive the ordered medication from a shared supply of the medication on the administering apparatus; and thereafter administering from the administering apparatus a dose of the patient-unassigned medication to the patient having the order with the pharmacy according to the patient's dosing regimen; and then assigning the dose of the medication to the patient, including updating the patient record to indicate that the dose of the medication was actually administered to the patient, net billing for only doses of medication that are actually administered, wherein a patient or third party is prospectively billed for a predetermined quantity of doses of the medication, and the patient or third party is retroactively credited for any unused doses of the predetermined quantity of doses of medication, wherein the unused doses are not withdrawn from the administering apparatus, and the unused doses are not returned to inventory or discarded.