| 摘要 |
A software application that analyzes different formularies provides a patient with affordable prescription-drug options through a point of care system. The software application uses a database to store healthcare plan formularies, cash-payment formulary, drug manufacturer copayment-assistance formularies, and drug manufacturer cash-discount formularies. All of the formularies on the database are provided in an interoperable format. The software application will compare and analyze the costs, the exclusion factors, and the discounts from the various applicable formularies for a specific drug and alternative drugs. This analysis will be presented as a certified screen to the prescriber or the patient in order to find the drug option that is both clinically relevant and affordable. The prescription and the certified screen details, less patient identifying information, will be sent as feedback to the benefit providers of those formularies. |
| 主权项 |
1. A method of providing affordable prescription-drug options through a point of care system by executing computer-executable instructions stored on a non-transitory computer-readable medium, the method comprises the steps of:
providing a formulary database, wherein said formulary database includes a plurality of healthcare plan (HP) formularies, a cash-payment formulary, a plurality of drug manufacturers (DM) copayment-assistance formularies, and a plurality of DM cash-discount formularies; accessing said formulary database through a point of care (POC) system; receiving a drug search query for a patient profile through said POC system, wherein said patient profile includes personal information; identifying a specific drug from said drug search query, wherein said specific drug includes drug description information; searching through said HP formularies, said cash-payment formulary, said DM copayment-assistance formularies, and said DM cash-discount formularies in order to find matching references to said specific drug and said patient profile; performing a cost correlation process for said specific drug with said matching references in order to determine an HP formulary status for said patient profile, an overall copayment value, an overall cash-discount value, and alternative-drugs information; displaying a certified screen through said POC system, wherein said certified screen includes said HP formulary status, said overall copayment value, said cash discount value, and said alternative-drugs information; and generating and sending a usage report to third party benefit-providing participants, if said POC system writes a prescription for said specific drug, wherein said usage report contains said prescription and said certified screen without patient-identifying information. |
