Propagation Processing

This propagator creates CER rule objects for rate data, which are stored by CER on its database tables.

In contrast to other propagators, rate data is not propagated incrementally. This is because typically a user may want to change several rate tables before applying all the changes in one go, at which point the system will identify all the cases affected.

As such, rates are only propagated during initial/full propagation (as for the other propagators), or when the user explicitly chooses to apply rate changes to CER products. When any of these propagation triggers occur, the system will:

read the configurations for the Rate Rule Object Propagator (i.e. those of type "ROPT2006");
read all the rate cells for the configured rate tables;
identify each rate cell's varying value over the history of the rate table (ignoring any range data);
for each rate cell's varying value, create or update the corresponding RateCell rule object;
remove any RateCell rule objects for rate cells which have been removed; and
for any rates which have been created, updated or removed, inform the Dependency Manager of the changes in data so that the Dependency Manager can identify which cases require reassessment. Dependencies on rate data are stored at the Attribute Value level (i.e. per rate cell).

Important: Only rate cells which are in top-level rows and columns are propagated. Any rate cell which belongs to a sub-row and/or sub-column is ignored.

Only the value of a rate cell is used during propagation. Any min or max range data for the rate cells is ignored during propagation.

For more information on rate tables, see "Implementing Rate Tables" in the Cúram Integrated Case Management Configuration Guide.

Each rate cell will only be valid as far back as its earliest rate header record. Before this date, the timeline for the rate's varying value will be defaulted to zero.