Patent ID: 8732002

Claim:
A method of distributing a prescription drug sample to a consumer through a pharmacy, the method comprising the steps of: distributing to a drug prescriber at least one machine readable card, each of which is encoded with a unique identifier, and patient instructions for participating in a test or questionnaire; inducing the drug prescriber to distribute to a patient, a prescription for said drug sample, said patient instructions, and at least one of said machine readable cards; inducing said patient to follow said instructions to participate in a test or questionnaire; funding, by a computer, a deposit account associated with said unique identifier, with an insurance company payment processing system, accessible by said pharmacy for obtaining payment for drugs dispensed to customers insured by an insurance company that pays claims through the insurance company payment processing system, in an amount sufficient to reimburse said pharmacy for its charge for said drug sample, wherein said deposit account is only funded upon successful completion of said test or questionnaire; inducing said patient to present said machine readable card to said pharmacy with said prescription for obtaining said drug sample, and reimbursing said pharmacy from said funded deposit account for said charge for said drug sample in response to said card being read by a card reader linked to said insurance company payment processing system.