Optum Eligibility Requests API
Submit new real-time eligibility transactions. These endpoints accept either a normalized JSON request or a JSON request body with `x12` set to the X12 270 payload, and return a normalized JSON eligibility response. When a customer is enrolled in integrated Coverage Discovery, these operations may also return related discovery task links in the response headers.
Optum Eligibility Requests API is one of 166 APIs that Optum publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification.
Tagged areas include Eligibility Requests. 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 2 operations across 2 paths, and defines 5 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 Eligibility Requests 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 2
Across 2 paths, the API surfaces 2 operations — 2 POST. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.
Submit new real-time eligibility transactions. These endpoints accept either a normalized JSON request or a JSON request body with x12 set to the X12 270 payload, and return a nor…
Schemas 5
The contract defines 5 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are Transaction (13 properties), TransactionMedicare (11 properties), EligibilityRequest (11 properties), EligibilityRequestX12 (1 property). 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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