Patent ID: RE42508

Claim:
A method of managing a healthcare practice participating in an insurance network to enhance profitability of the healthcare practice with respect to a predetermined reimbursement amount for ancillary pharmacy costs, the method comprising: gathering data in a tangible computer medium from each of a plurality of physicians in the healthcare practice participating in the insurance network including pharmacy costs other than those attributed to a medical procedure performed directly by any of the plurality of physicians when the respective physician directly administers a medication to a patient to thereby define ancillary pharmacy costs; analyzing the gathered data by a computer ; identifying responsive to the analysis by the computer, at least one of the plurality of physicians in the healthcare practice participating in the insurance network that is at a greater risk of not receiving the predetermined reimbursement amount for the ancillary pharmacy costs from the insurance network by prescribing medications that are detrimental to receiving the predetermined reimbursement amount for the ancillary pharmacy costs; after the step of identifying, modifying ancillary pharmacy costs management behavior of the at least one of the plurality of physicians at the greater risk regarding the ancillary pharmacy costs; and determining that the risk of not receiving the predetermined reimbursement amount for the ancillary pharmacy costs from the insurance network has been reduced to increase the profitability of the healthcare practice.