This resource provides the adjudication details from the processing of a Claim resource.

A unique identifier assigned to this claim response.

Allows claim responses to be distinguished and referenced.

Trace number for tracking purposes. May be defined at the jurisdiction level or between trading partners.

Allows partners to uniquely identify components for tracking.

The status of the resource instance.

Need to track the status of the resource as 'draft' resources may undergo further edits while 'active' resources are immutable and may only have their status changed to 'cancelled'.

This element is labeled as a modifier because the status contains codes that mark the resource as not currently valid.

A finer grained suite of claim type codes which may convey additional information such as Inpatient vs Outpatient and/or a specialty service.

Some jurisdictions need a finer grained claim type for routing and adjudication.

This may contain the local bill type codes, for example the US UB-04 bill type code or the CMS bill type.

A finer grained suite of claim type codes which may convey additional information such as Inpatient vs Outpatient and/or a specialty service.

Some jurisdictions need a finer grained claim type for routing and adjudication.

This may contain the local bill type codes, for example the US UB-04 bill type code or the CMS bill type.

A code to indicate whether the nature of the request is: Claim - A request to an Insurer to adjudicate the supplied charges for health care goods and services under the identified policy and to pay the determined Benefit amount, if any; Preauthorization - A request to an Insurer to adjudicate the supplied proposed future charges for health care goods and services under the identified policy and to approve the services and provide the expected benefit amounts and potentially to reserve funds to pay the benefits when Claims for the indicated services are later submitted; or, Pre-determination - A request to an Insurer to adjudicate the supplied 'what if' charges for health care goods and services under the identified policy and report back what the Benefit payable would be had the services actually been provided.

This element is required to understand the nature of the request for adjudication.

The party to whom the professional services and/or products have been supplied or are being considered and for whom actual for facast reimbursement is sought.

The patient must be supplied to the insurer so that confirmation of coverage and service hstory may be considered as part of the authorization and/or adjudiction.

The date this resource was created.

Need to record a timestamp for use by both the recipient and the issuer.

The party responsible for authorization, adjudication and reimbursement.

To be a valid claim, preauthorization or predetermination there must be a party who is responsible for adjudicating the contents against a policy which provides benefits for the patient.

The provider which is responsible for the claim, predetermination or preauthorization.

Typically this field would be 1..1 where this party is accountable for the data content within the claim but is not necessarily the facility, provider group or practitioner who provided the products and services listed within this claim resource. This field is the Billing Provider, for example, a facility, provider group, lab or practitioner..

Original request resource reference.

The outcome of the claim, predetermination, or preauthorization processing.

To advise the requestor of an overall processing outcome.

The resource may be used to indicate that the Claim/Preauthorization/Pre-determination has been received but processing has not begun (queued); that it has been processed and one or more errors have been detected (error); no errors were detected and some of the adjudication processing has been performed (partial); or all of the adjudication processing has completed without errors (complete).

The result of the claim, predetermination, or preauthorization adjudication.

To advise the requestor of the result of the adjudication process.

The element is used to indicate the current state of the adjudication overall for the claim resource, for example: the request has been held (pended) for adjudication processing, for manual review or other reasons; that it has been processed and will be paid, or the outstanding paid, as submitted (approved); that no amount will be paid (denied); or that some amount between zero and the submitted amount will be paid (partial).

A human readable description of the status of the adjudication.

Provided for user display.

Reference from the Insurer which is used in later communications which refers to this adjudication.

On subsequent claims, the insurer may require the provider to quote this value.

This value is only present on preauthorization adjudications.

The time frame during which this authorization is effective.

To convey to the provider when the authorized products and services must be supplied for the authorized adjudication to apply.

Information code for an event with a corresponding date or period.

A coded event such as when a service is expected or a card printed.

A date or period in the past or future indicating when the event occurred or is expectd to occur.

Type of Party to be reimbursed: subscriber, provider, other.

Need to know who should receive payment with the most common situations being the Provider (assignment of benefits) or the Subscriber.

Healthcare encounters related to this claim.

Used in some jurisdictions to link clinical events to claim items.

This will typically be the encounter the event occurred within, but some activities may be initiated prior to or after the official completion of an encounter but still be tied to the context of the encounter.

A package billing code or bundle code used to group products and services to a particular health condition (such as heart attack) which is based on a predetermined grouping code system.

Required to relate the current diagnosis to a package billing code that is then referenced on the individual claim items which are specific to the health condition covered by the package code.

For example DRG (Diagnosis Related Group) or a bundled billing code. A patient may have a diagnosis of a Myocardial Infarction and a DRG for HeartAttack would be assigned. The Claim item (and possible subsequent claims) would refer to the DRG for those line items that were for services related to the heart attack event.

A claim line. Either a simple (a product or service) or a 'group' of details which can also be a simple items or groups of sub-details.

The adjudication for items provided on the claim.

A number to uniquely reference the claim item entries.

Necessary to provide a mechanism to link the adjudication result to the submitted claim item.

Trace number for tracking purposes. May be defined at the jurisdiction level or between trading partners.

Allows partners to uniquely identify components for tracking.

The numbers associated with notes below which apply to the adjudication of this item.

Provides a condensed manner for associating human readable descriptive explanations for adjudications on the line item.

The high-level results of the adjudication if adjudication has been performed.

The result of the claim, predetermination, or preauthorization adjudication.

To advise the requestor of the result of the adjudication process.

The element is used to indicate the current state of the adjudication overall for the claim resource, for example: the request has been held (pended) for adjudication processing, for manual review or other reasons; that it has been processed and will be paid, or the outstanding paid, as submitted (approved); that no amount will be paid (denied); or that some amount between zero and the submitted amount will be paid (partial).

The reasons for the result of the claim, predetermination, or preauthorization adjudication.

To advise the requestor of the contributors to the result of the adjudication process.

Reference from the Insurer which is used in later communications which refers to this adjudication.

On subsequent claims, the insurer may require the provider to quote this value.

This value is only present on preauthorization adjudications.

The time frame during which this authorization is effective.

To convey to the provider when the authorized products and services must be supplied for the authorized adjudication to apply.

If this item is a group then the values here are a summary of the adjudication of the detail items. If this item is a simple product or service then this is the result of the adjudication of this item.

The adjudication results conveys the insurer's assessment of the item provided in the claim under the terms of the patient's insurance coverage.

A code to indicate the information type of this adjudication record. Information types may include the value submitted, maximum values or percentages allowed or payable under the plan, amounts that: the patient is responsible for in aggregate or pertaining to this item; amounts paid by other coverages; and, the benefit payable for this item.

Needed to enable understanding of the context of the other information in the adjudication.

For example codes indicating: Co-Pay, deductible, eligible, benefit, tax, etc.

A code supporting the understanding of the adjudication result and explaining variance from expected amount.

To support understanding of variance from adjudication expectations.

For example may indicate that the funds for this benefit type have been exhausted.

Monetary amount associated with the category.

Most adjudication categories convey a monetary amount.

For example: amount submitted, eligible amount, co-payment, and benefit payable.

A non-monetary value associated with the category. Mutually exclusive to the amount element above.

Some adjudication categories convey a percentage or a fixed value.

For example: eligible percentage or co-payment percentage.

A claim detail. Either a simple (a product or service) or a 'group' of sub-details which are simple items.

The adjudication for details provided on the claim.

A number to uniquely reference the claim detail entry.

Necessary to provide a mechanism to link the adjudication result to the submitted claim detail.

Trace number for tracking purposes. May be defined at the jurisdiction level or between trading partners.

Allows partners to uniquely identify components for tracking.

The numbers associated with notes below which apply to the adjudication of this item.

Provides a condensed manner for associating human readable descriptive explanations for adjudications on the line item.

The high-level results of the adjudication if adjudication has been performed.

The adjudication results.

A sub-detail adjudication of a simple product or service.

The adjudication for sub-details provided on the claim.

A number to uniquely reference the claim sub-detail entry.

Necessary to provide a mechanism to link the adjudication result to the submitted claim sub-detail.

Trace number for tracking purposes. May be defined at the jurisdiction level or between trading partners.

Allows partners to uniquely identify components for tracking.

The numbers associated with notes below which apply to the adjudication of this item.

Provides a condensed manner for associating human readable descriptive explanations for adjudications on the line item.

The high-level results of the adjudication if adjudication has been performed.

The adjudication results.

The first-tier service adjudications for payor added product or service lines.

Insurers may redefine the provided product or service or may package and/or decompose groups of products and services. The addItems allows the insurer to provide their line item list with linkage to the submitted items/details/sub-details. In a preauthorization the insurer may use the addItem structure to provide additional information on authorized products and services.

Claim items which this service line is intended to replace.

Provides references to the claim items.

The sequence number of the details within the claim item which this line is intended to replace.

Provides references to the claim details within the claim item.

The sequence number of the sub-details within the details within the claim item which this line is intended to replace.

Provides references to the claim sub-details within the claim detail.

Trace number for tracking purposes. May be defined at the jurisdiction level or between trading partners.

Allows partners to uniquely identify components for tracking.

The providers who are authorized for the services rendered to the patient.

Insurer may provide authorization specifically to a restricted set of providers rather than an open authorization.

The type of revenue or cost center providing the product and/or service.

Needed in the processing of institutional claims.

When the value is a group code then this item collects a set of related item details, otherwise this contains the product, service, drug or other billing code for the item. This element may be the start of a range of .productOrService codes used in conjunction with .productOrServiceEnd or it may be a solo element where .productOrServiceEnd is not used.

Necessary to state what was provided or done.

If this is an actual service or product line, i.e. not a Group, then use code to indicate the Professional Service or Product supplied (e.g. CTP, HCPCS, USCLS, ICD10, NCPDP, DIN, RxNorm, ACHI, CCI). If a grouping item then use a group code to indicate the type of thing being grouped e.g. 'glasses' or 'compound'.

This contains the end of a range of product, service, drug or other billing codes for the item. This element is not used when the .productOrService is a group code. This value may only be present when a .productOfService code has been provided to convey the start of the range. Typically this value may be used only with preauthorizations and not with claims.

Request or Referral for Goods or Service to be rendered.

May identify the service to be provided or provider authorization for the service.

Item typification or modifiers codes to convey additional context for the product or service.

To support inclusion of the item for adjudication or to charge an elevated fee.

For example in Oral whether the treatment is cosmetic or associated with TMJ, or for Medical whether the treatment was outside the clinic or outside of office hours.

Identifies the program under which this may be recovered.

Commonly used in in the identification of publicly provided program focused on population segments or disease classifications.

For example: Neonatal program, child dental program or drug users recovery program.

The date or dates when the service or product was supplied, performed or completed.

Needed to determine whether the service or product was provided during the term of the insurance coverage.

Where the product or service was provided.

The location can alter whether the item was acceptable for insurance purposes or impact the determination of the benefit amount.

The number of repetitions of a service or product.

Required when the product or service code does not convey the quantity provided.

If the item is not a group then this is the fee for the product or service, otherwise this is the total of the fees for the details of the group.

The amount charged to the patient by the provider for a single unit.

A real number that represents a multiplier used in determining the overall value of services delivered and/or goods received. The concept of a Factor allows for a discount or surcharge multiplier to be applied to a monetary amount.

When discounts are provided to a patient (example: Senior's discount) then this must be documented for adjudication.

To show a 10% senior's discount, the value entered is: 0.90 (1.00 - 0.10).

The total of taxes applicable for this product or service.

Required when taxes are not embedded in the unit price or provided as a separate service.

The total amount claimed for the group (if a grouper) or the addItem. Net = unit price * quantity * factor.

Provides the total amount claimed for the group (if a grouper) or the line item.

For example, the formula: quantity * unitPrice * factor = net. Quantity and factor are assumed to be 1 if not supplied.

Physical location where the service is performed or applies.

Physical service site on the patient (limb, tooth, etc.).

Allows insurer to validate specific procedures.

For example: Providing a tooth code allows an insurer to identify a provider performing a filling on a tooth that was previously removed.

A region or surface of the bodySite, e.g. limb region or tooth surface(s).

Allows insurer to validate specific procedures.

The numbers associated with notes below which apply to the adjudication of this item.

Provides a condensed manner for associating human readable descriptive explanations for adjudications on the line item.

The high-level results of the adjudication if adjudication has been performed.

The adjudication results.

The second-tier service adjudications for payor added services.

Trace number for tracking purposes. May be defined at the jurisdiction level or between trading partners.

Allows partners to uniquely identify components for tracking.

The type of revenue or cost center providing the product and/or service.

Needed in the processing of institutional claims.

When the value is a group code then this item collects a set of related item details, otherwise this contains the product, service, drug or other billing code for the item. This element may be the start of a range of .productOrService codes used in conjunction with .productOrServiceEnd or it may be a solo element where .productOrServiceEnd is not used.

Necessary to state what was provided or done.

If this is an actual service or product line, i.e. not a Group, then use code to indicate the Professional Service or Product supplied (e.g. CTP, HCPCS, USCLS, ICD10, NCPDP, DIN, RxNorm, ACHI, CCI). If a grouping item then use a group code to indicate the type of thing being grouped e.g. 'glasses' or 'compound'.

This contains the end of a range of product, service, drug or other billing codes for the item. This element is not used when the .productOrService is a group code. This value may only be present when a .productOfService code has been provided to convey the start of the range. Typically this value may be used only with preauthorizations and not with claims.

Item typification or modifiers codes to convey additional context for the product or service.

To support inclusion of the item for adjudication or to charge an elevated fee.

For example in Oral whether the treatment is cosmetic or associated with TMJ, or for Medical whether the treatment was outside the clinic or outside of office hours.

The number of repetitions of a service or product.

Required when the product or service code does not convey the quantity provided.

If the item is not a group then this is the fee for the product or service, otherwise this is the total of the fees for the details of the group.

The amount charged to the patient by the provider for a single unit.

A real number that represents a multiplier used in determining the overall value of services delivered and/or goods received. The concept of a Factor allows for a discount or surcharge multiplier to be applied to a monetary amount.

When discounts are provided to a patient (example: Senior's discount) then this must be documented for adjudication.

To show a 10% senior's discount, the value entered is: 0.90 (1.00 - 0.10).

The total of taxes applicable for this product or service.

Required when taxes are not embedded in the unit price or provided as a separate service.

The total amount claimed for the group (if a grouper) or the addItem.detail. Net = unit price * quantity * factor.

Provides the total amount claimed for the group (if a grouper) or the line item.

For example, the formula: quantity * unitPrice * factor = net. Quantity and factor are assumed to be 1 if not supplied.

The numbers associated with notes below which apply to the adjudication of this item.

Provides a condensed manner for associating human readable descriptive explanations for adjudications on the line item.

The high-level results of the adjudication if adjudication has been performed.

The adjudication results.

The third-tier service adjudications for payor added services.

Trace number for tracking purposes. May be defined at the jurisdiction level or between trading partners.

Allows partners to uniquely identify components for tracking.

The type of revenue or cost center providing the product and/or service.

Needed in the processing of institutional claims.

When the value is a group code then this item collects a set of related item details, otherwise this contains the product, service, drug or other billing code for the item. This element may be the start of a range of .productOrService codes used in conjunction with .productOrServiceEnd or it may be a solo element where .productOrServiceEnd is not used.

Necessary to state what was provided or done.

If this is an actual service or product line, i.e. not a Group, then use code to indicate the Professional Service or Product supplied (e.g. CTP, HCPCS, USCLS, ICD10, NCPDP, DIN, RxNorm, ACHI, CCI). If a grouping item then use a group code to indicate the type of thing being grouped e.g. 'glasses' or 'compound'.

This contains the end of a range of product, service, drug or other billing codes for the item. This element is not used when the .productOrService is a group code. This value may only be present when a .productOfService code has been provided to convey the start of the range. Typically this value may be used only with preauthorizations and not with claims.

Item typification or modifiers codes to convey additional context for the product or service.

To support inclusion of the item for adjudication or to charge an elevated fee.

For example in Oral whether the treatment is cosmetic or associated with TMJ, or for Medical whether the treatment was outside the clinic or outside of office hours.

The number of repetitions of a service or product.

Required when the product or service code does not convey the quantity provided.

If the item is not a group then this is the fee for the product or service, otherwise this is the total of the fees for the details of the group.

The amount charged to the patient by the provider for a single unit.

A real number that represents a multiplier used in determining the overall value of services delivered and/or goods received. The concept of a Factor allows for a discount or surcharge multiplier to be applied to a monetary amount.

When discounts are provided to a patient (example: Senior's discount) then this must be documented for adjudication.

To show a 10% senior's discount, the value entered is: 0.90 (1.00 - 0.10).

The total of taxes applicable for this product or service.

Required when taxes are not embedded in the unit price or provided as a separate service.

The total amount claimed for the addItem.detail.subDetail. Net = unit price * quantity * factor.

Provides the total amount claimed for the group (if a grouper) or the line item.

For example, the formula: quantity * unitPrice * factor = net. Quantity and factor are assumed to be 1 if not supplied.

The numbers associated with notes below which apply to the adjudication of this item.

Provides a condensed manner for associating human readable descriptive explanations for adjudications on the line item.

The high-level results of the adjudication if adjudication has been performed.

The adjudication results.

The adjudication results which are presented at the header level rather than at the line-item or add-item levels.

Some insurers will receive line-items but provide the adjudication only at a summary or header-level.

Categorized monetary totals for the adjudication.

To provide the requestor with financial totals by category for the adjudication.

Totals for amounts submitted, co-pays, benefits payable etc.

A code to indicate the information type of this adjudication record. Information types may include: the value submitted, maximum values or percentages allowed or payable under the plan, amounts that the patient is responsible for in aggregate or pertaining to this item, amounts paid by other coverages, and the benefit payable for this item.

Needed to convey the type of total provided.

For example codes indicating: Co-Pay, deductible, eligible, benefit, tax, etc.

Monetary total amount associated with the category.

Needed to convey the total monetary amount.

Payment details for the adjudication of the claim.

Needed to convey references to the financial instrument that has been used if payment has been made.

Whether this represents partial or complete payment of the benefits payable.

To advise the requestor when the insurer believes all payments to have been completed.

Total amount of all adjustments to this payment included in this transaction which are not related to this claim's adjudication.

To advise the requestor of adjustments applied to the payment.

Insurers will deduct amounts owing from the provider (adjustment), such as a prior overpayment, from the amount owing to the provider (benefits payable) when payment is made to the provider.

Reason for the payment adjustment.

Needed to clarify the monetary adjustment.

Estimated date the payment will be issued or the actual issue date of payment.

To advise the payee when payment can be expected.

Benefits payable less any payment adjustment.

Needed to provide the actual payment amount.

Issuer's unique identifier for the payment instrument.

Enable the receiver to reconcile when payment received.

For example: EFT number or check number.

A code, used only on a response to a preauthorization, to indicate whether the benefits payable have been reserved and for whom.

Needed to advise the submitting provider on whether the rquest for reservation of funds has been honored.

Fund would be release by a future claim quoting the preAuthRef of this response. Examples of values include: provider, patient, none.

A code for the form to be used for printing the content.

Needed to specify the specific form used for producing output for this response.

May be needed to identify specific jurisdictional forms.

The actual form, by reference or inclusion, for printing the content or an EOB.

Needed to include the specific form used for producing output for this response.

Needed to permit insurers to include the actual form.

A note that describes or explains adjudication results in a human readable form.

Provides the insurer specific textual explanations associated with the processing.

A number to uniquely identify a note entry.

Necessary to provide a mechanism to link from adjudications.

The business purpose of the note text.

To convey the expectation for when the text is used.

The explanation or description associated with the processing.

Required to provide human readable explanation.

A code to define the language used in the text of the note.

Note text may vary from the resource defined language.

Only required if the language is different from the resource language.

Request for additional supporting or authorizing information.

Need to communicate insurer request for additional information required to support the adjudication.

For example: professional reports, documents, images, clinical resources, or accident reports.

Financial instruments for reimbursement for the health care products and services specified on the claim.

At least one insurer is required for a claim to be a claim.

All insurance coverages for the patient which may be applicable for reimbursement, of the products and services listed in the claim, are typically provided in the claim to allow insurers to confirm the ordering of the insurance coverages relative to local 'coordination of benefit' rules. One coverage (and only one) with 'focal=true' is to be used in the adjudication of this claim. Coverages appearing before the focal Coverage in the list, and where 'subrogation=false', should provide a reference to the ClaimResponse containing the adjudication results of the prior claim.

A number to uniquely identify insurance entries and provide a sequence of coverages to convey coordination of benefit order.

To maintain order of the coverages.

A flag to indicate that this Coverage is to be used for adjudication of this claim when set to true.

To identify which coverage in the list is being used to adjudicate this claim.

A patient may (will) have multiple insurance policies which provide reimbursement for healthcare services and products. For example a person may also be covered by their spouse's policy and both appear in the list (and may be from the same insurer). This flag will be set to true for only one of the listed policies and that policy will be used for adjudicating this claim. Other claims would be created to request adjudication against the other listed policies.

Reference to the insurance card level information contained in the Coverage resource. The coverage issuing insurer will use these details to locate the patient's actual coverage within the insurer's information system.

Required to allow the adjudicator to locate the correct policy and history within their information system.

A business agreement number established between the provider and the insurer for special business processing purposes.

Providers may have multiple business arrangements with a given insurer and must supply the specific contract number for adjudication.

The result of the adjudication of the line items for the Coverage specified in this insurance.

An insurer need the adjudication results from prior insurers to determine the outstanding balance remaining by item for the items in the curent claim.

Must not be specified when 'focal=true' for this insurance.

Errors encountered during the processing of the adjudication.

Need to communicate processing issues to the requestor.

If the request contains errors then an error element should be provided and no adjudication related sections (item, addItem, or payment) should be present.

The sequence number of the line item submitted which contains the error. This value is omitted when the error occurs outside of the item structure.

Provides references to the claim items.

The sequence number of the detail within the line item submitted which contains the error. This value is omitted when the error occurs outside of the item structure.

Provides references to the claim details within the claim item.

The sequence number of the sub-detail within the detail within the line item submitted which contains the error. This value is omitted when the error occurs outside of the item structure.

Provides references to the claim sub-details within the claim detail.

An error code, from a specified code system, which details why the claim could not be adjudicated.

Required to convey processing errors.

A simple subset of FHIRPath limited to element names, repetition indicators and the default child accessor that identifies one of the elements in the resource that caused this issue to be raised.

Allows systems to highlight or otherwise guide users to elements implicated in issues to allow them to be fixed more easily.

The root of the FHIRPath is the resource or bundle that generated OperationOutcome. Each FHIRPath SHALL resolve to a single node.