---
title: EbillingImageService
summary: API reference for EbillingImageService.
status: draft
owner: SAIF Doc Gen
last_reviewed: 2026-09-24
library: SAIF.Services
reference_type: package
---

# EbillingImageService

Implements `IEbillingImageService` as the batch-level entry point for imaging an e-billing batch: it resolves the `SETUP`-status 837 batch by ID, delegates the actual document imaging to `IDocumentImageManager`, and reports the resolved batch ID back on the result even when imaging fails.

## Purpose
- Resolves the batch to be imaged from its ID via `Batch.GetBatch`, requiring it to be in `837`/ `SETUP` status (`ImageDocuments`).
- Delegates the imaging workflow for the batch to `IDocumentImageManager.ImageDocuments`.
- Wraps any imaging failure in an exception that identifies the batch ID, and stamps the resolved batch ID onto the returned `ImageResults` regardless of outcome.

## Context
- Namespace: `SAIF.Services.Claims.Ebilling.Imaging`
- Assembly/package: `SAIF.Services` (packaged inside the `SAIF.SAIFCode.Core` NuGet package)

## Public members
| Member | Signature | Purpose |
| --- | --- | --- |
| EbillingImageService | `public EbillingImageService(IUnitOfWork unitOfWork, IUserProfileService profileService, IDocumentImageManager documentImageManager, IEbillingQueryProvider ebillingQueryProvider)` | Wires the unit-of-work, current-user resolver, document-image-manager delegate, and e-billing query provider used to resolve and image a batch. |
| ImageDocuments | `public ImageResults ImageDocuments(ImageDocumentsRequest request, ILogWriter resultsControlReport)` | Resolves the `SETUP`-status 837 batch for the request, runs the imaging workflow via `IDocumentImageManager`, and returns the results with the resolved batch ID populated (re-throwing imaging failures wrapped with the batch ID). |

## Behavioral notes
- Acts as a thin facade over `IDocumentImageManager`; the substantive imaging logic (file validation, per-document upload, status transitions) lives in that collaborator, not here.

## Sources
- Services/SAIF.Services/Claims/EBilling/Imaging/EbillingImageService.cs