CMS — Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Code Search API
Search CPT/HCPCS codes by procedure codes or terms describing medical procedures. Get code details for a given procedure code.
CMS — Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Code Search API is one of 56 APIs that CMS — Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification.
Tagged areas include Code Search. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification, API documentation, authentication docs, a GitHub repository, a changelog, and an API reference.
This API exposes 2 operations across 2 paths, and defines 1 schema. It is described by OpenAPI 3.2.0, at version 1.1.1.
Requests are made against a single base URL, https://www.medicare.gov/api/procedure-price-lookup/api/v1/core.
Metadata
The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.
Authentication & Security 2
CMS — Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Code Search API declares
2 security schemes
for authenticating requests.
An API key is passed in the header as apiKey (apiKey).
An API key is passed in the header as amaLicense (amaLicense).
apiKey— All requests must include the apiKey header containing your API Key.amaLicense— All requests must include the amaLicense header containing your AMA License.
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.
Search CPT/HCPCS codes by procedure codes or terms describing medical procedures. Get code details for a given procedure code.
Schemas 1
The contract defines 1 schema that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed is Code (3 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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