ChargeItem FHIR Resource Proposal
Contents
- 1 ChargeItem
- 1.1 Owning committee name
- 1.2 Committee Approval Date:
- 1.3 Contributing or Reviewing Work Groups
- 1.4 FHIR Resource Development Project Insight ID
- 1.5 Scope of coverage
- 1.6 RIM scope
- 1.7 Resource appropriateness
- 1.8 Expected implementations
- 1.9 Content sources
- 1.10 Example Scenarios
- 1.11 Resource Relationships
- 1.12 Timelines
- 1.13 gForge Users
- 1.14 When Resource Proposal Is Complete
ChargeItem
Owning committee name
Committee Approval Date:
24 Jan 2017
Contributing or Reviewing Work Groups
Financial Management
FHIR Resource Development Project Insight ID
pending
Scope of coverage
ChargeItem is used to communicate statistical or billing relevant information associated with services (planned or actual). ChargeItems are placed into Patient Account resources. Tracking Financial information is vital in Patient Administration and Finance systems in most Healthcare Organizations. This resource provides the individual items to track.
This resource is not an actual financial transaction (such as an item on an invoice), but is the base administrative data that may be used by a billing engine to create the financial transactions (which may be done outside FHIR).
The FHIR Claim resource does contain line items, and this ChargeItem resource provides the source material for the billing engine to create the items on the claim (which may be different due to business rules).
RIM scope
Financial Transaction
Resource appropriateness
Tracking Financial information is vital in Patient Administration and Finance systems in most Healthcare Organizations. This resource provides the individual items to track.
Expected implementations
- Any solution that requires tracking billing information
Content sources
Existing normative V3 and V2 specifications
Example Scenarios
- Identify Encounters that may be billed for time spent in a facility
- Lab system sends ChargeItems containing billing codes for administered services to the patient's account
- Billing System queries patient account for all billable ChargeItems to create an Invoice/Claim
- Hospital maintains internal catalogue of statistically relevant services. All systems providing these services post ChargeItems into the Accounts of the Patients for whom these services have been provided. Customized queries can be used to analyze distribution of services among patient cohorts or developement of services provisions over time
Resource Relationships
- Reference to Account (account)
- Reference to Encounter/EpisodeOfCare (context)
- Reference to Patient|Group (subject)
- Reference to any type of Request (basedOn)
- Reference to any type of Event (service)
- Self reference to permit grouping of charges
- (May also need a reference from the Claim back to these Items)
Timelines
We have built a draft placeholder for this resource, and working with the Finance WG to refine it during the 3.0/4.0 timeline.
gForge Users
brianpos simoneheckmann
When Resource Proposal Is Complete
When you have completed your proposal, please send an email to FMGcontact@HL7.org