savings_methodology

Submitted arguments

{
  "mechanism": "avoidance_of_future_cost"
}

Native result and verdict

{
  "does_not_license": {
    "reading": "NO READING IS ATTACHED. These fields carry no interpretation, and this world does not supply one unasked. To obtain a reading, and to find out whether what you are about to write is supported, call judgement_check with receipt \"r1011\" and the claims you intend to make. A claim written without checking it is a claim this world did not license.\n\nThis answer declared no figure, so claim_check has nothing to decide an expression against and judgement_check is the check to use. The two are alternatives and neither falls back to the other."
  },
  "kind": "served",
  "licence": {
    "coverage_database": "Contains information from the CMS Medicare Coverage Database.",
    "cpt": "CPT is copyright the American Medical Association. Served under a distribution licence.",
    "linkback": "https://hammer.ai/coverage-intelligence",
    "terms": "https://hammer.ai/terms"
  },
  "payload": {
    "basis": "assumption",
    "basis_detail": {
      "inputs": [
        {
          "basis": "assumption",
          "name": "mechanism"
        },
        {
          "basis": "cited",
          "name": "hard_and_soft_definitions",
          "source": "this world's published hard and soft savings definitions, served in full by hello_world with skill \"hammer-savings-classification\""
        }
      ],
      "rule": "A figure computed from inputs of more than one basis carries the weakest basis among them, strongest to weakest being measured, then cited, then assumption, so a figure is never stronger than the weakest input that produced it."
    },
    "classification": "soft",
    "classification_meaning": "a soft saving is modelled against a counterfactual that no adjudicated claim ever records, so its evidence is the model and the declared assumptions behind it",
    "classification_reason": "the avoided cost never appears on any claim in any period, so it exists only in a model, and part of what such models call avoided is merely deferred; deferred_versus_avoided in this world separates the two and refuses to add them",
    "definition_source": "this world's published hard and soft savings definitions, served in full by hello_world with skill \"hammer-savings-classification\"",
    "evidence_required": "a declared event model separating prevented costs from moved ones, with timings and a discount rate declared, and a design that supports the counterfactual rather than assuming it",
    "is_not": "NOT a savings figure and NOT evidence that the declared mechanism operates: this payload classifies the mechanism the caller declared against this world's cited definitions and carries no number anywhere. Whether the mechanism delivers anything is settled by the evidence class named above, which this world does not hold.",
    "mechanism": "avoidance_of_future_cost",
    "mechanism_meaning": "a cost that would have been incurred later never occurs",
    "not_summed_note": "hard and soft are classified one mechanism at a time and never summed, because a claims-evidenced reduction added to a modelled counterfactual reports one number with two different evidence classes behind it.",
    "receipt": "r1011",
    "world_version": "hammer-coverage-intelligence:2026-10-01+2"
  },
  "receipt": "r1011",
  "session": "49ec6090f32b112cd7fc2d39a72e0974",
  "tool": "savings_methodology",
  "world": {
    "build": 2,
    "description": "What payers publish that they pay, code by code, and what may be said with it.",
    "name": "hammer-coverage-intelligence",
    "vintage": "2026-10-01"
  }
}

Permanent saved result

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claim_check

judgement_check