Data processing: financial – business practice – management – or co – Automated electrical financial or business practice or... – Health care management
Reexamination Certificate
2011-03-29
2011-03-29
Gilligan, C. Luke (Department: 3626)
Data processing: financial, business practice, management, or co
Automated electrical financial or business practice or...
Health care management
C705S004000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07917372
ABSTRACT:
A pharmacy benefits management system and method. A processor server has claim information relating to pharmacy benefits claims, and information relating to a claims processing formularly stored therein. A provider server has pharmacy benefits plan structure information stored therein. A management server has price information relating drugs in various classes and a processing module for correlating the claim information with the benefits plan structure information and the formularly information to identify drugs dispensed to patients, expenses associated with the drugs in accordance with the pharmacy benefits plan structure information, alternative drugs in the same class as the drugs and expenses associated with the alternative drugs.
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Brusilovsky Ilia
Dietz John E
Hauser Rob
Oscar Robert S
Ousterhout Dean T
Gilligan C. Luke
Kaufman Marc S.
Nixon & Peabody LLP
Porter Rachel L
RXEOB/COM.LLC
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