Public surface / Payer Patient Access APIs
AmeriHealth Caritas Next (Florida) Patient Access API
This endpoint declares a solid public surface with minor gaps.
Observed surface
- Base URL
https://api-ext.amerihealthcaritas.com/FLDS/patient-api- Category
- Payer Patient Access APIs
- Availability
- answered 45 of the last 45 daily checks (100%)
- Last answered
- 2026-10-03 (answered on this run)
- Vantage agreement
- reachable from all 3 vantages, which are 3 hosts on one network (github-actions): one network's view sampled 3 times, not 3 independent networks
What each vantage saw
| Vantage | Result | What it saw | Condition |
|---|---|---|---|
github-actions/macos-latest | reached | answered in 599 ms | HTTP 200 |
github-actions/ubuntu-latest | reached | answered in 775 ms | HTTP 200 |
github-actions/windows-latest | reached | answered in 531 ms | HTTP 200 |
Vantages on one network are one network’s view sampled several times. A rule applied to that network’s address space reaches every one of them at once and reads exactly like agreement.
Interpretation
A grade describes two public discovery documents at one point in time. It does not inspect patient data, authenticated behavior, or clinical quality.
Read the scoring method →This endpoint's full report: what was observed, what was not, and what would change it →
What its CapabilityStatement declares, resource by resource →
Findings
- Needs attention: 22 profile canonical(s) declared in rest.resource.profile, none of them US Core, CARIN, or Da Vinci; also checked rest.resource.supportedProfile, instantiates, imports, meta.profileI1Spec ↗
- Pass: SMART discovery document present and completeI2Spec ↗
- Pass: OAuth/SMART security service declared in CapabilityStatementI3Spec ↗
Observed since 2026-08-20; no changes to declared capability recorded.
Declared app-to-server access
What the endpoint's own documents declare about app-to-server access, observed on this run. Nothing here was requested or exercised, and none of it is graded. An absent field is reported as absent, not as a refusal: a document that does not mention a field has not said anything about it.
| Question | Answer | What the document says | Where it is declared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Declares private_key_jwt client authentication at the token endpoint | not declared: the field is absent | the document has no token_endpoint_auth_methods_supported | SMART discovery: token_endpoint_auth_methods_supported |
| Declares the client_credentials grant, which SMART Backend Services uses | not declared: the field is absent | the document has no grant_types_supported | SMART discovery: grant_types_supported |
| Declares the client-confidential-asymmetric capability | not listed | capabilities lists 9 and not client-confidential-asymmetric | SMART discovery: capabilities |
| Declares system-level scopes | not listed | none of 2 scopes_supported is a system/ scope | SMART discovery: scopes_supported |
| Declares an export operation | not listed | 213 operations are declared and none is named export | CapabilityStatement: rest.operation and rest.resource.operation |
| Instantiates the Bulk Data Access implementation guide | not listed | 0 canonicals are instantiated and none is Bulk Data's | CapabilityStatement: instantiates |
Registry provenance
How this entry was verified
live CapabilityStatement fetch (fhirVersion 4.0.1, software AmeriHealth Caritas 1.0.0); implementation.url matches the requested base exactly. The URL is printed on the corporate developer portal's Swagger API Details table, which carries three Florida plan IDs (FLDS, FLEX, KCHC) all labelled 'AmeriHealth Caritas Next, Florida'; all three serve byte-identical documents, so the entry is the row the table leads with and the other two are in the candidate log. One entry per organization per surface. The consumer brand site amerihealthcaritasnext.com prints no base URL and does not link the portal, which is recorded because it is where a member would look (recorded 2026-08-19). No later re-check is recorded, so the date above is the last time anyone checked this entry against the live endpoint.
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