Create and Store New Decisions

The eligibility and entitlement engine creates case decisions based on the evidence for the case. To create case decisions, the eligibility and entitlement engine uses a pattern date list or an event date list. The eligibility and entitlement engine calls the rules engine for the dates in the date list. All identical, contiguous decisions are rolled up into one decision covering the necessary time period. The eligibility and entitlement engine creates a case event and stores each case decision, each case decision objective, and each case decision objective tag.

The above-described process for creating case decisions is outlined in Financial Component Processing. The following is a summary of the information stored for each of these decisions: