Patent ID: 8738399

Claim:
A method comprising: accessing, on a processor, prescription drug wholesaler sale data regarding prescription drugs sold to a pharmacy by a prescription drug wholesaler during a retrospective time period; determining, on the processor, a number of units of a prescription drug sold by the prescription drug wholesaler to the pharmacy based on the accessed prescription drug wholesaler sale data; accessing, on the processor, adjudicated pharmacy claims data of the retrospective time period, the adjudicated pharmacy claims data reflecting a plurality of adjudicated claims, the plurality of adjudicated claims being a plurality of claims of the retrospective time period that were submitted on behalf of the pharmacy and adjudicated and dispensing approved by a benefit manager, the dispensing approved reflecting approval by the benefit manager of the plurality of claims for dispensing by the pharmacy; determining, on the processor, a number of units of the prescription drug associated with the plurality of adjudicated claims; comparing, on the processor, the number of units of the prescription drug associated with the plurality of adjudicated claims with the number of units of the prescription drug sold to the pharmacy; and determining, on the processor, that a discrepancy exists based on a result of the comparison reflecting that the pharmacy has filled prescriptions for more prescription drugs than the pharmacy has purchased.