Patent ID: 8670995

Claim:
A method for aligning a plurality of pharmaceutical prescriptions associated with a plurality of customers, the method comprising: storing, for each of a plurality of customers, a customer record comprising a customer identifier indicative of a customer, and one or more prescriptions; retrieving from a database a plurality of customer records; receiving a selection of a plurality of prescriptions to align, the plurality of prescriptions being associated with the plurality of customer records retrieved; determining, for each of the plurality of selected prescriptions, a next fill date, wherein the next fill date is the date the prescription was last filled, incremented by a pre-alignment day supply for the prescription; computing, via a computing device, at least one alignment date corresponding to at least one of a quickest alignment option, a lowest cost alignment option, or a medication status alignment option, wherein a medication status alignment option is based on the status of at least one medication as a generic medication or a brand name medication; computing, via a computing device, an alignment cost for at least one of the quickest alignment option, the lowest cost alignment option, the medication status alignment option, or a custom alignment option; and receiving, via a computing device, an alignment date selection corresponding to one of the quickest alignment option, the lowest cost alignment option, the medication status alignment option, or the custom alignment option.