Start composing your evidence response to a dispute by creating a draft "counter". A counter holds your categorized evidence (each item is a canonical evidence category plus free text and/or attached files) for one round of a dispute, and is continuously saved as a draft so you don't lose work before submitting.
There is **at most one open draft per dispute round**. Calling this when a draft already exists returns that draft rather than creating a duplicate, so it's safe to call on page load. Any attached `file_ids` must reference files you uploaded via the Files API; referencing a file you don't own returns `422`.
Request
Request body for CounterCreateRequest
evidence_itemslist of objectsOptionalDefaults to []
Initial categorized evidence for the draft.
Response
Successful response
counter_idstring
Stable Truemed counter ID (UUID).
created_atdatetime
When this counter was created.
phaseenum
Dispute phase this counter responds to.
revisioninteger
Optimistic-lock revision; echo it back on the next draft save to detect conflicts.
stateenum
Counter lifecycle state.
updated_atdatetime
When this counter was last updated.
evidence_itemslist of objectsOptionalDefaults to []
The categorized evidence captured on this counter.
submitted_atdatetime or nullOptional
When this counter was submitted to the processor.
submitted_bystring or nullOptional
Email of the dashboard user who submitted this counter; null for drafts or API-key submissions.