Packet check
Was this packet issued here, unaltered?
Every inpatient claim packet and pricing record from this site prints a check line in its version record. Paste it below. The answer is yes or no: the line was issued by this engine with every signed fact as it was, or it is not recognized. Nothing you paste is kept, and no rate, factor or figure is shown.
What the check covers
The line signs six facts of one pricing run. If any of them was changed after the packet printed, the line is not recognized.
- Run IDThe run that priced the claim, itself signed by the engine.
- MS-DRGThe DRG the claim was priced on.
- HospitalThe CCN the hospital record came from, or NOCCN for a typed wage index.
- Discharge dateWhich provider record and rate year applied, or NODATE.
- Original Medicare amountThe engine's total for the claim, in dollars.
- Rate yearThe IPPS fiscal year the rates came from.
Outside the check: a figure on another basis (a plan's percentage, a contract, Medicare Advantage out of network) is the reviewer's arithmetic on the Medicare amount, and the packet says so beside it. The reviewer's notes, the sign-off and anything typed on the page are theirs. A packet with no check line was a saved sample, or came from an earlier build; price the claim again for one.
What this page keeps: nothing. The line goes to the engine once, its signature is recomputed from the facts in the line, and the line is discarded. Nothing is looked up, so there is no record of the claim here, and the answer repeats none of it. The line is sent in the request body, never in the address.
Where the line is: on the packet (Hand off, Claim packet) and the pricing record, under Version record, beside the run ID. A sample line looks like this:
CHK1 RUN-0123456789ABCDEF 871 450358 2026-10-08 22392.69 FY2027 CHK-00000-00000