Overview

This chapter covers the processing of Financial Transactions created by the Claim Finalization process. The processing consists of two main parts; general processing and financial message creation. The general processing does financial processing that needs to be done on transactions before creation of financial messages for them. This processing consists of superseding financial transactions that are no longer required because a new version is already available. Financial transactions are superseded if they have not been sent out to external systems before a new version is received. Otherwise, a reversal transaction is made.

General processing can be re-run in which case results of previous runs are replaced.

The processing is done within the context of financial transaction sets; however, when financial processing is re-run, financial transactions are only processed if they are impacted by an addition to or removal from a financial transaction set.

Once a financial transaction is handled by the Generate Financial Message activity, no further financial processing will be done on these financial transactions. A handled financial transaction is either:

• Included in a financial message

• Marked as processed to ensure it is not processed in subsequent financial processing activities. This can either be superseded or message not required. Please refer to the Stamping of Results section in the Generate Financial Message activity description.