---
title: clsDCBSCostCharge
summary: API reference for clsDCBSCostCharge.
status: draft
owner: SAIF Doc Gen
last_reviewed: 2026-07-24
library: SAIF.Business.View.Provider
reference_type: package
---

# clsDCBSCostCharge

API reference for clsDCBSCostCharge.

## Purpose
- Plain DTO representing a single DCBS cost/charge record associated with a provider.
- Not a BOF business object: it has no `IBusinessCriteria`/`Criteria` class and is populated by its owning list type rather than performing its own data access.

## Context
- Namespace: `SAIF.Business.View.Provider`
- Assembly/package: `SAIF.BOF.Business.View.Provider`

## Public members
| Member | Signature | Purpose |
| --- | --- | --- |
| ProviderLocationID | `ReadOnly Property ProviderLocationID() As Decimal` | Returns the provider location this cost/charge factor applies to. |
| CostChargeFactor | `ReadOnly Property CostChargeFactor() As Decimal` | Returns the DCBS cost/charge factor value. |
| EffectiveDate | `ReadOnly Property EffectiveDate() As Date` | Returns the date this cost/charge factor became effective. |
| ExpirationDate | `ReadOnly Property ExpirationDate() As Date` | Returns the date this cost/charge factor expired (from the internal `clsSmartDate`). |
| HasExpirationDate | `ReadOnly Property HasExpirationDate() As Boolean` | Returns whether an expiration date has been set. |
| IsExpired | `ReadOnly Property IsExpired() As Boolean` | Returns whether an expiration date has been set (identical logic to `HasExpirationDate`). |
| IsActive | `ReadOnly Property IsActive() As Boolean` | Returns whether no expiration date has been set. |
| IsInEffect | `ReadOnly Property IsInEffect(ByVal inDate As Date) As Boolean` | Returns whether `inDate` falls on/after `EffectiveDate` and, if expired, on/before `ExpirationDate`. |

## Non-public implementation notes
- `Friend Sub New(ByVal inProviderLocationID As Decimal, ByVal inEffectiveDate As Date, ByVal inExpirationDate As clsSmartDate, ByVal inFactor As Decimal)` is the only constructor and is called internally by `clsDCBSCostChargeList`.

## Behavioral notes
- This class does not inherit `clsBusinessBase`; it is a plain `Serializable` DTO with no dirty-tracking, validation rules, or `IBusinessCriteria` support.
- The `IsInEffect`, `IsActive`, `IsExpired`, and `HasExpirationDate` logic mirrors the equivalent members on [clsMCOProvider](clsMCOProvider.md), each computed independently for this record's own effective/expiration dates.

## Constraints and usage notes
- The constructor is `Friend`, so instances can only be constructed from within the `SAIF.Business.View.Provider` assembly — in practice, only by `clsDCBSCostChargeList`'s constructor as it reads each row of [SQL-001](../../sql/SQL-001-saif-business-view-provider.md).

## Sources
- `Business\SAIF.Business.View.Provider\clsDCBSCostCharge.vb`