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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 02, 2025
Filed:
Feb. 23, 2021
Walgreen Co., Deerfield, IL (US);
Ajumobi O. Udechukwu, Lake Forest, IL (US);
Yannik K. Pitcan, Berkeley, CA (US);
WALGREEN CO., Deerfield, IL (US);
Abstract
Techniques for generating an irrevocable or guaranteed out-of-pocket (OOP) cost for a patient's prescription prior to the patient submitting the prescription for processing and filling by an enterprise include receiving a request for the OOP cost, obtaining current information corresponding to the patient, and determining the irrevocable OOP cost of the prescription based on the current patient information, one or more constraints set by the enterprise for a given time interval and associated with OOP prescription costs, and changes to characteristic(s) of the patient and/or occurrences of external condition(s) predicted to occur during the given time interval. The irrevocable OOP cost may be charged to the patient for the prescription irrespective of any amount which is provided by the patient's insurance provider to cover the cost of the prescription. The techniques may utilize a set of specially-trained irrevocable OOP cost machine learning models to determine the irrevocable OOP prescription cost.