APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR REWARDING CONSUMERS

摘要

The present invention relates to a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium containing program code for funding a deposit account associated with a unique identifier encoded on a machine readable card, with an insurance company payment processing system, accessible by a pharmacy for obtaining payment for drugs dispensed to customers insured by an insurance company, wherein the deposit account is only funded upon successful completion of a test or questionnaire by a patient, wherein patient instructions for participating in the test or questionnaire was distributed to the patient by a drug prescriber with a prescription for the drug sample and the machine readable card; and program code for reimbursing the pharmacy from the funded deposit account for the charge for the drug sample in response to the card being read by a card reader linked to the insurance company payment processing system.

主权项

1. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium containing program code comprising:
program code for funding a deposit account associated with a unique identifier encoded on a machine readable card, with an insurance company payment processing system, accessible by a pharmacy for obtaining payment for drugs dispensed to customers insured by an insurance company that pays claims through the insurance company payment processing system, in an amount sufficient to reimburse said pharmacy for its charge for a prescription drug sample, wherein said deposit account is only funded upon successful completion of a test or questionnaire by a patient, wherein patient instructions for participating in said test or questionnaire was distributed to said patient by a drug prescriber with a prescription for said drug sample and said machine readable card; and program code for reimbursing said pharmacy from said funded deposit account for said charge for said drug sample in response to said card being read by a card reader linked to said insurance company payment processing system.