Patent ID: 8560338

Claim:
A method for facilitating the delivery of prescription products or services, the method comprising the steps of: providing, from a customer to a participating bidding service provider, prescription information and patient information relating to an unfilled prescription, wherein the unfilled prescription was provided to the customer by a prescriber; electronically performing a similar product price comparison to identify a list of products or services potentially similar to the unfilled prescription along with relative costs for such identified similar products or services; providing the customer with the results of the similar product price comparison; communicating, from the customer to the processing unit, a select prescription comprising the unfilled prescription or a select similar product or service; transferring information relating to the select prescription from the bidding service provider to a registry of pre-qualified prescription fulfillment providers; conducting a reverse auction on a computer system in which the pre-qualified prescription fulfillment providers respond with interactive and iterative bids to fill the select prescription; providing the customer with the details of the lowest bid of each responding prescription fulfillment provider that made at least one bid to fill the select prescription; selecting the winning bid by the customer; and providing the customer with a reservation, wherein the reservation comprises at least one coupon for an item other than the select prescription.