Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Cost Search API
For a given procedure code or entire set of codes, get national averages for the amount Medicare pays hospitals or surgical centers, and the national average copay amounts.
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Cost Search API is one of 16 APIs that Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification.
Tagged areas include Cost Search. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification, API documentation, authentication docs, and a GitHub repository.
This API exposes 2 operations across 2 paths, and defines 1 schema. It is described by OpenAPI 2.0, at version 1.
Requests are made against the base URL https://marketplace.api.healthcare.gov/api/v1.
Metadata
The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.
Authentication & Security 1
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Cost Search API declares
1 security scheme
for authenticating requests.
An API key is passed in the query as apikey (API Key).
By default, every request must be authenticated.
API Key— Your API key should be included as a query parameter with the request. You can [fill out this form](https://cms.gov1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV4N2GHCJfNuX7n8x)…
Paths & Operations 2
Across 2 paths, the API surfaces 2 operations — 2 GET. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.
For a given procedure code or entire set of codes, get national averages for the amount Medicare pays hospitals or surgical centers, and the national average copay amounts.
Schemas 1
The contract defines 1 schema that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed is Cost (4 properties). Each schema is shown below with its type and property counts.
Specification
The full machine-readable OpenAPI contract behind this narrative.
Source
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