Search Results ben_benhipaa_xmlp_pkg

Overview

APPS.BEN_BENHIPAA_XMLP_PKG is a PL/SQL package that supports the Oracle Advanced Benefits HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) concurrent report program in Oracle E-Business Suite releases 12.1.1 and 12.2.2. The package acts as the report logic container for the corresponding XML Publisher (BI Publisher) report definition. Its declared AUTHID CURRENT_USER directive means the package executes with the privileges of the invoking schema rather than the owner, which is the standard model for report-support packages in the APPS schema.

Functionally, the package assembles the runtime SQL bind values, computes derived HIPAA-related dates, updates processing status on the benefits element, and controls the report lifecycle from before-report initialization through after-report cleanup. The header comment (version 120.1.12010000.2, dated 2009) indicates the source was last shipped on the 12.1 code line and carried forward into the 12.2.2 environment.

Key Procedures and Functions

• CF_STANDARD_HEADERFORMULA — A report formula function returning a Number. In Oracle report-support packages, the CF_ prefix denotes a "column formula" evaluated by the report engine, frequently used to set the header or standard header context. This is the object most directly associated with the user search term cf_standard_headerformula.
• CF_WAIT_START_DTFORMULA — Computes the waiting-period start date. It accepts coverage end date, original enrollment date, waiting period start date, and the plan coverage provided ID as inputs, and returns a character value. The logic is designed to determine the correct effective start of the HIPAA waiting period given enrollment and coverage history.
• CF_WAIT_PERD_CMPLTN_DTFORMULA — Computes the waiting-period completion date from coverage end date, original enrollment date, and the waiting period completion date, returning a character value.
• UPDATE_PCD_SENT_DT — A procedure that updates the date on which the plan coverage provided record was sent. It takes the plan coverage provided ID and the effective date as inputs and writes back to the underlying benefits table.
• BEFOREREPORT — Returns a boolean and is invoked automatically by the report engine before report execution, typically to initialize package globals and validate context.
• AFTERREPORT — Returns a boolean and is invoked after report execution for cleanup and final status handling.

The package also declares global variables for business group, person, effective date, location, organization, program, benefits group, and concurrent request ID, which parameterize the report run.

Tables Accessed

The only documented table reference is BEN_PER_CM_PRVDD_F, the benefits "person coverage provided" fact table. This table stores the coverage records associated with a participant's plan enrollment, including waiting-period and coverage date attributes. UPDATE_PCD_SENT_DT writes to this table, while the date-computation formula functions read from its columns to derive waiting-period start and completion dates for the report output.

Usage Notes

This package is not intended for direct invocation by end users or custom code. It is called by the Oracle Reports/XML Publisher runtime when the HIPAA report concurrent program executes. The BEFOREREPORT and AFTERREPORT triggers fire automatically as part of that cycle, and the CF_ formula functions are evaluated per report row or group. The UPDATE_PCD_SENT_DT procedure is invoked from within the report logic to record the sent date for the plan coverage provided record. Because the package uses AUTHID CURRENT_USER and references APPS synonyms, it must be executed from a session with appropriate privileges on the BEN schema objects. No other packages are documented as referencing it.