Optum Coverage Discovery API
Create and retrieve asynchronous Coverage Discovery tasks. Coverage Discovery paths and add-ons are enabled per customer and are not included automatically. These endpoints support direct submission using either normalized eligibility data or JSON bodies containing X12 payloads, dry-run validation of enrolled discovery paths, polling for task status, and callback-based delivery of completed discovery results.
Optum Coverage Discovery API is one of 166 APIs that Optum publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification.
Tagged areas include Coverage Discovery. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification, an API reference, a getting-started guide, authentication docs, a changelog, and API documentation.
This API exposes 4 operations across 3 paths, and defines 8 schemas. It is described by OpenAPI 3.2.0, at version v0.2.0.
Requests are made against 2 base URLs: https://sandbox-apigw.optum.com, https://apigw.optum.com.
Metadata
The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.
Authentication & Security 1
Optum Coverage Discovery API declares
1 security scheme
for authenticating requests.
It supports OAuth 2.0 (oAuth) using the clientCredentials flow, exposing 5 scopes.
oAuth— This API uses OAuth 2 with the clientcredentials grant flow. [More info](https://api.example.com/docs/auth)
Paths & Operations 4
Across 3 paths, the API surfaces 4 operations — 2 GET, 2 POST. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.
Create and retrieve asynchronous Coverage Discovery tasks. Coverage Discovery paths and add-ons are enabled per customer and are not included automatically. These endpoints suppor…
Schemas 8
The contract defines 8 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are Transaction (13 properties), EligibilityRequest (11 properties), CoverageDiscoveryTask (11 properties), DiscoveryMultiStatusItem (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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