Portable prescription transaction payment device

A portable prescription transaction payment device comprising:

• memory, embedded in a substrate, having stored therein:
• an identifier, quantity, and dosage for each of a plurality of:
• a prescription medical supply sample prescribed by a prescribing medical practitioner to a patient;
• and
• a non-sample prescription medical supply each being prescribed by a corresponding said prescribing medical practitioner to the patient;
• for each said prescription medical supply sample, a pharmaceutical company account for a dispensing pharmacist to charge the cost of the prescription medical supply sample for payment to a dispensing pharmacist account to reimburse the dispensing pharmacist for the prescription medical supply sample;
• an identifier for the patient;
• an identifier for each said prescribing medical practitioner;
• an identifier for a consumer account issued by an issuer to the patient;
• and
• an identifier to correlate which said prescription for the patient was prescribed by which said prescribing medical practitioner, wherein:
• the pharmaceutical company account and the consumer account are each an account in a payment processing network by which a consumer can engage in a plurality of transactions on the account with a plurality of merchants in the payment processing network;
• the payment processing network includes a plurality of said merchants and said consumers engaging in the plurality of said transactions on a plurality of respective said accounts that respective said issuers issue to the consumers;
• and
• each said transaction involves the merchant submitting the transaction to an acquirer for processing by a transaction handler who requests the issuer to obtain payment for the transaction from the account, wherein the issuer forwards the payment to the transaction handler who forwards the payment to the acquirer to reimburse the merchant for the transaction;
• and
• means for providing access to the information in the memory.

A portable prescription transaction payment device comprising:

• memory, embedded in a substrate, having information stored therein, wherein:
• the substrate has an image on a surface thereof that includes a representation of at least a portion of the information in the memory for being read by the image being scanned by a scanner at a Point of Service terminal:
• the information includes:
• an identifier, quantity, and dosage for each of a plurality of:
• a prescription medical supply sample prescribed by a prescribing medical practitioner to a patient;
• and
• a non-sample prescription medical supply prescribed by a corresponding said prescribing medical practitioner to the patient;
• an image, having multiple portion, of each said prescription for the patient that was prescribed by the corresponding said prescribing medical practitioner, wherein the portions of the image correspond to:
• the identifier for the patient;
• the identifier for the prescribing medical practitioner;
• and
• the identifier, quantity, and dosage identifier for the prescription medical supply sample;
• and
• the identifier, quantity, and dosage identifier for the non-sample prescription medical supply;
• for each said prescription medical supply sample, a pharmaceutical company account for a dispensing pharmacist to charge the cost of the prescription medical supply sample for payment to a dispensing pharmacist account to reimburse the dispensing pharmacist for the prescription medical supply sample;
• and
• an identifier to correlate which said prescription for the patient was prescribed by which said prescribing medical practitioner, wherein:
• the pharmaceutical company account and the consumer account are each an account in a payment processing network by which a consumer can engage in a plurality of transactions on the account with a plurality of merchants in the payment processing network;
• the payment processing network includes a plurality of said merchants and said consumers engaging in the plurality of said transactions on a plurality of respective said accounts that respective said issuers issue to the consumers;
• and
• each said transaction involves the merchant submitting the transaction to an acquirer for processing by a transaction handler who requests the issuer to obtain payment for the transaction from the account, wherein the issuer forwards the payment to the transaction handler who forwards the payment to the acquirer to reimburse the merchant for the transaction;
• and
• means for providing access to the information in the memory.