The sample scenarios included in the Foundation reflect a real-time processing situation with an immediate response generated after processing the message. To reflect this real-time situation, the messages are limited to one claim status request per member (subscriber or patient).

As per the X12 276/277 Implementation Guide specification, there is no validation at the various levels of the message loops.

The key functionality includes:

• X12 276 Message Parsing — per the 276/277 Implementation Guide.
• Claim Status Request Work Object Creation — for every claim submitted in the transaction.
• Claim Retrieval — sample business rules to retrieve a claim from the sample database based on the Claim Identifiers submitted on the 276 message. If a matching claim is not found, an appropriate STC segment is returned on the outbound 277 message. If a matching claim is found, the system returns the claim status information in the STC segment of the 277 message.
• X12 277 Message Generation — per the 2760/277 Implementation Guide.