2.22 Commitment Discount Unit

Commitment Discount Unit represents the provider-specified measurement unit indicating how a provider measures the Commitment Discount Quantity of a commitment discount. The CommitmentDiscountUnit column is only applicable to commitment discounts and not negotiated discounts.

The CommitmentDiscountUnit column adheres to the following requirements:

• CommitmentDiscountUnit MUST be present in a FOCUS dataset when the provider supports commitment discounts.
• CommitmentDiscountUnit MUST be of type String, and the units of measure used in CommitmentDiscountUnit SHOULD adhere to the values and format requirements specified in the UnitFormat attribute.
• The CommitmentDiscountUnit MUST be the same across all rows where CommitmentDiscountQuantity has the same CommitmentDiscountId.
• CommitmentDiscountUnit MAY be null if CommitmentDiscountId is not null and ChargeClass is "Correction".
• CommitmentDiscountUnit MUST NOT be null when CommitmentDiscountId is not null and ChargeClass is not "Correction".
• CommitmentDiscountUnit MUST be null in all other cases.

In cases where the CommitmentDiscountUnit is not null, the following applies:

• The CommitmentDiscountUnit MUST represent the unit used to measure the commitment discount.
• When accounting for commitment discount flexibility, the CommitmentDiscountUnit value SHOULD reflect this consideration.

The provider-specified measurement unit indicating how a provider measures the Commitment Discount Quantity of a commitment discount.