Public surface / Payer Patient Access APIs
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Alabama Patient Access API
This endpoint declares a solid public surface with minor gaps.
Observed surface
- Base URL
https://api-bcbsal-prd.safhir.io/v1/api/carin-bb- Category
- Payer Patient Access APIs
- Availability
- answered 16 of the last 16 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 286 ms | HTTP 200 |
github-actions/ubuntu-latest | reached | answered in 152 ms | HTTP 200 |
github-actions/windows-latest | reached | answered in 500 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.
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Findings
Observed since 2026-09-18; 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 retrieved on this run | the SMART discovery document was requested and not served on this run | SMART discovery: token_endpoint_auth_methods_supported |
| Declares the client_credentials grant, which SMART Backend Services uses | not retrieved on this run | the SMART discovery document was requested and not served on this run | SMART discovery: grant_types_supported |
| Declares the client-confidential-asymmetric capability | not retrieved on this run | the SMART discovery document was requested and not served on this run | SMART discovery: capabilities |
| Declares system-level scopes | not retrieved on this run | the SMART discovery document was requested and not served on this run | SMART discovery: scopes_supported |
| Declares an export operation | not listed | 0 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
host and path printed in Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Alabama's own 'FHIR Documentation' PDF, published at bcbsal.org, under the heading 'Base URLs': 'The base url for each endpoint can be found on the website: https://api-bcbsal-prd.safhir.io/v1/api/', with the CARIN BB surface named on the next line as https://api-bcbsal-prd.safhir.io/v1/api/carin-bb/openapi.json. Live CapabilityStatement retrieved unauthenticated from the davis-ca residential vantage: fhirVersion 4.0.1, 6 resource types, 11 CARIN Blue Button supportedProfile canonicals. The document's publisher element reads 'HL7 Financial Management Working Group', which is the implementation guide's publisher and not the payer's, so attribution rests on BCBSAL printing the host in its own document (recorded 2026-09-13). 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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