Pricing Currency Effective Cost
Column definition from FOCUS v1.2. Read its requirements and implementation guidance before mapping provider data.
- Source
- FOCUS MCP snapshot
- Edition
- v1.2
- Column ID
PricingCurrencyEffectiveCost- Mode
- Read-only
- Library snapshot (UTC)
- 2026-10-08
Constraints
Description
The Pricing Currency Effective Cost represents the cost of the charge after applying all reduced rates, discounts, and the applicable portion of relevant, prepaid purchases (one-time or recurring) that covered this charge, as denominated in Pricing Currency. This allows the practitioner to perform a conversion from either 1) a national currency to a virtual currency (e.g., tokens to USD), or 2) one national currency to another (e.g., EUR to USD).
The PricingCurrencyEffectiveCost column adheres to the following requirements:
- PricingCurrencyEffectiveCost presence in a FOCUS dataset is defined as follows:
- PricingCurrencyEffectiveCost MUST be present in a FOCUS dataset when the provider supports prices in virtual currency and publishes unit prices exclusive of discounts.
- PricingCurrencyEffectiveCost is RECOMMENDED to be present in a FOCUS dataset when the provider supports pricing and billing in different currencies and publishes unit prices exclusive of discounts.
- PricingCurrencyEffectiveCost MAY be present in a FOCUS dataset in all other cases.
- PricingCurrencyEffectiveCost MUST be of type Decimal.
- PricingCurrencyEffectiveCost MUST conform to NumericFormat requirements.
- PricingCurrencyEffectiveCost MUST NOT be null.
- PricingCurrencyEffectiveCost MUST be a valid decimal value.
- PricingCurrencyEffectiveCost MUST be 0 in the event of prepaid purchases or purchases that are applicable to previous usage.
- PricingCurrencyEffectiveCost MUST be denominated in the PricingCurrency.