Last updated: 2 October 2026
The NHCX patient page is the hub for all of a patient's claim activity. It shows every NHCX workflow for that patient, the current status and amounts, and the next action to take.
From the patient's record, open the NHCX section. The page shows:
Each workflow is a group of NHCX steps (eligibility check, pre-auth, claim, payment, communication) for one patient and payer. Each entry shows:
Click a workflow to expand it and see the individual steps.
Only submitted cases appear in the timeline. A case is also created by the earlier look-ups — Get Plan and Discover in the Get Policies pop-up each start a case of their own — and a case with nothing submitted to the payer yet is not a claim, so it stays out of the list. The single exception is the newest case with no submission, which remains at the top so you can carry on with it. This keeps the timeline to real cases instead of abandoned look-ups.
Above the step table each workflow has a Concise view checkbox, ticked by default. In concise view the coverage-eligibility steps are hidden so only the business steps remain (pre-authorization, enhancement, resubmission, claim, reprocess, payment notice); the label shows how many steps are hidden. Untick it to show the coverage-eligibility steps again. The checkbox belongs to that one workflow — each workflow is toggled independently.
Before pre-authorization, the expanded workflow shows a Get wallet button — but only once the workflow carries the payer and policy details (subscriber, beneficiary, and policy number) and an insurance-plan request has been sent for that workflow (see NHCX Check Eligibility Coverage). Clicking it runs a validation coverage-eligibility check in the background (the button stays live — coloured, with a spinner and a Waiting for the payer… (Ns) line counting the seconds up — while it polls the payer), which returns the policy's wallet: whether it is in force, the coverage period, and the total available balance.
The plan itself is requested from the workflow's Discovered Policies dialog: each policy row offers Validate first, and once the validation has been submitted for the case the row offers Get Plan instead. Validate is submitted from the dialog itself — the policy fields are already filled from the discovery, so there is no separate form to complete — and it is posted on the case straight away. Validate stays disabled until the payer has answered the discovery, because the dialog needs the payer's own policy code to name in the request. So the workflow order is Validate → Get Plan → Get wallet.
Once the wallet is known, the accordion replaces Get wallet with a wallet summary card (Active / Inactive, validity period, and balance in INR) and reveals the pre-authorization actions and Search as buttons. The same wallet summary also appears on the workflow's Kanban card.
If the payer refuses the validation, Get wallet shows the payer's own error — its code and message, for example HBP016 — No policies available for the selected policy code — instead of the wallet. The reason stays visible when the page is reloaded, and a later successful validation replaces it with the wallet card.
For a patient under 6 years old, each expanded workflow shows a Newborn (Baby of Parent) block. Enter the card-holder parent's UHID and click Link parent to resolve and link the parent to that workflow. Once linked, the block shows Linked to {parent name} (UHID …) with an Edit option.
The link is only offered when the patient's date of birth is known and under 6 years. The parent must be over 6 years old and have a valid date of birth — otherwise the system shows an inline error and does not link.
For cyclic treatments, the timeline tracks each admission and discharge with timestamps and cycle numbers. The admission and discharge actions open biometric capture for the corresponding process.
The timeline loads 5 workflows at a time. Click Load More to fetch the next page of workflows. Only submitted cases (plus the one in-progress case described above) are counted, so a patient whose only activity was plan or coverage look-ups shows the single in-progress case and no Load More.
Q: Why does the page load workflows in pages? A: The timeline is paginated for performance, so patients with many workflows load quickly. Use Load More to see older workflows.
Q: Where do I start a new claim for this patient? A: From the patient's NHCX page, run an eligibility check first, then follow the workflow's next action to submit the claim.