1. A managed distribution system for distribution and billing a product, the system comprising:
a processing site configured for communicating with a distributor, a client and a point-of-service provider (\u201cPOS\u201d), wherein the processing site facilitates delivery of a product from the distributor to the POS;
a billing system associated with the processing site, wherein the billing system is configured to bill the client for the Product delivered to the POS when the product is used to treat a patient who is a memberinsured of the client.
2. The system of claim 1, wherein the processing site is configured with one or more databases to store information of at least one of a distributor, a client and a POS.
3. The system of claim 1, wherein the processing site is configured to receive registration information from at least one of a distributor, a client and a POS.
4. The system of claim 1, wherein the processing site is configured receive inventory information of the POS and communicate this information to the distributor.
5. The system of claim 1, wherein the product comprises at least one of a medical, health care, and pharmaceutical product.
6. The system of claim 1, wherein the POS comprises at least one of a physician, home infusion provider, physician clinic, group practice, pharmacist, medical practitioner, nurse, veterinarian, and long term care facility.
7. A method for distributing a product, the method comprising:
registering a client and a point-of-service (\u201cPOS\u201d) with a distributor processing system;
receiving a product order from the POS at the processing system;
coordinating delivery of the product from the distributor to the POS;
verifying a patient of the client using the processing system;
approving the administration of the product to the patient by the POS; and
facilitating payment by the client to the distributor for the product.
8. The method for distributing a product of claim 7, further comprising reconciling billing between the client and the POS for the product.
9. The method for distributing a product of claim 7, further comprising deducting the product from an inventory of the POS.
10. The method for distributing a product of claim 7, the step of receiving a product order comprises receiving an order for at least one of a medical, health care, and pharmaceutical product.
11. The method for distributing a product of claim 7, wherein the step of registering a client and a point-of-service comprises registering a client and at least one of a physician, home infusion provider, physician clinic, group practice, pharmacist, medical practitioner, nurse, veterinarian, and long term care facility.
12. A method for adjudicating a claim for a product, the method comprising:
receiving a claim for a product from a clearinghouse, wherein product is ordered by a point-of-service provider (POS) from a distributor;
receiving a remittance from a client;
reconciling the claim with the remittance to form an approved amount;
crediting an account of the POS for the approved amount;
paying the distributor for the product; and
billing the client for the product.
13. The method of claim 12, wherein the step of receiving a claim for a product comprises receiving a claim for at least one of a medical, health care, and pharmaceutical product.
14. The method of claim 12, wherein the step of crediting an account of the POS comprises crediting the account of at least one of a physician, home infusion provider, physician clinic, group practice, pharmacist, medical practitioner, nurse, veterinarian, and long term care facility.
The claims below are in addition to those above.
All refrences to claim(s) which appear below refer to the numbering after this setence.
1. A silver paste for forming an electrically conductive layer consisting essentially of 0.1 to 60 wt % of a silver C0 to C12 aliphatic carboxylate powder; 1 to 80 wt % of silver powder; 0.1 to 15 wt % of a binder; and a residual organic solvent including a vehicle for modulating viscosity of the silver paste to at least about 10,000 cPs;
wherein the silver powder is plate-like; and
wherein said silver paste additionally contains a reactive organic solvent.
2. A silver paste for forming an electrically conductive layer according to claim 1, wherein the silver powder has an average particle diameter in the range of 0.1 to 10 micrometers and the silver aliphatic carboxylate is selected from the group consisting of silver citrate, silver oxalate, silver formate and silver malate.
3. A silver paste for forming an electrically conductive layer according to claim 1 , wherein the vehicle for modulating viscosity is C1 to C4 aliphatic alcohol having a mono- to tri-valent hydroxyl group, C2 to C8 alkyl ether of the aliphatic alcohol or C2 to C8 alkyl ester of the aliphatic alcohol.
4. A silver paste for forming an electrically conductive layer according to claim 1, wherein the reactive organic solvent is selected from the group consisting of an amine substituted by one or more C1 to C6 aliphatic group and a linear or branched C1 to C16 aliphatic thiol.
5. A silver paste for forming an electrically conductive layer according to claim 1, wherein the reactive organic solvent is selected from the group consisting of methylamine, ethylamine, isopropylamine, monoethanolamine, diethanolamine, triethanolamine and a mixture thereof and the vehicle for modulating viscosity is selected from the group consisting of butylcarbitol acetate, butylcarbitol, ethylcarbitol, ethylcarbitol acetate, terpineol, texanol, menthanol, isoamyl acetate, methanol, ethanol and a mixture thereof.
6. A silver paste for forming an electrically conductive layer according to claim 5, wherein the binder is thermo-setting and 1 to 13 w % of the total paste.
7. A silver paste for forming an electrically conductive layer according to claim 6, wherein the metallization temperature of the silver paste is 80\xb0 C. to 280\xb0 C.