Mckesson Corporation

Stewart Aragon

Keith Crozier

Stacy Hopkins

Megan Wetzel

A method, apparatus and computer program product are provided to estimate at least one target quantitative measure based upon historical electronic messages. The historical electronic messages may be partitioned based on geographic areas. The target quantitative measure may be estimated based upon respective binary categorical indicators, and respective quantitative measures of the historical electronic messages. The target quantitative measure may be adjusted dependent upon a quantitative criterion of an entity. The target quantitative measure may be used to price prescription drugs and/or the like, and may impact prescription adherence and/or pharmacy profit margins.

Method, apparatus, and computer program product for estimating a target quantitative measure based upon historical electronic messages

A method, apparatus and computer program product are provided for parsing a message received from a requesting computer to identify an indication of a transaction, an entity identifier, and an identifier of a first evaluation system. The entity identifier is evaluated based on historical data and/or eligibility data to determine an alternative evaluation procedure. The alternative evaluation procedure is preformed to obtain response information regarding the transaction, that may differ from response information otherwise obtained via the first evaluation system. A response to the message is constructed that includes the response information and is transmitted to the requesting computer.

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