HL7 Electronic Health Record System Functional Model, Release 2.1.1
2.1.1 - Normative

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## Requirements: AS.8.3 Support Integration of Cost/Financial information into Patient Care (Function)

Official URL: http://hl7.org/ehrs/uv/ehrsfmr2/Requirements/EHRSFMR2-AS.8.3 | Version: 2.1.1
Standards status: Normative Active as of 2025-12-13 | Computable Name: AS_8_3_Support_Integration_of_Cost_Financial_information_into_Patient_Care

Support interactions with other systems, applications, and modules to enable the use of cost management information required to guide users and workflows.

Description I:

The provider is alerted or presented with the most cost-effective services, referrals, devices, etc., to recommend to the patient. This may be tailored to the patient's health insurance/plan coverage rules. Medications may be presented in order of cost, or the cost of specific interventions may be presented at the time of ordering.

Criteria N:

AS.8.3#01 | MAY | The system MAY provide the ability to extract formularies, preferred providers, and other information, from internal or external sources, that are associated with a patient's health care plan and coverage so that the provider can offer cost effective alternatives to patients.
AS.8.3#02 | MAY | The system MAY provide the ability to extract information about exemptions on coverage limitations and guidelines.
AS.8.3#03 | MAY | The system MAY provide the ability to capture or transmit the request for information about exemptions on coverage limitations and guidelines.
AS.8.3#04 | MAY | The system MAY provide the ability to render expected patient out-of- pocket cost information for medications, diagnostic testing, and procedures, from internal or external sources, that are associated with a patients health care plan and coverage.
AS.8.3#05 | MAY | The system MAY provide the ability to render a notification of an alert to the provider of care where formularies, preferred provider and other information indicate the health plan requires an alternative.
AS.8.3#06 | SHOULD | The system SHOULD conform to function AS.9.3 (Support Service Authorizations) to integrate support of prior authorization processes.