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Health Care Service Corporation Provider Directory API: endpoint report

Everything this project observed about this one endpoint, everything it did not observe, and what would change the result. Free to read, link, print and hand on; there is nothing here behind a sign-in and nothing to buy.

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Status on this run

Status
not observed
Category
Payer Provider Directory APIs
Base URL observed
https://api.hcsc.net
Reach on this run
Reached from 0 of 3 reporting vantages, sitting on 1 network. Vantages on one network are one network's view sampled several times.
Last answered
not in the recorded window
Availability
answered 0 of the last 46 daily checks (0%)
Observed
2026-10-03 15:21 UTC

What was observed, and what was not

This report covers 4 checks. 0 ran. 2 were asked from every reporting vantage and answered by none. 2 were never asked, because nothing was retrieved for them to read. The three are different facts and none of them is a zero: a check that did not run publishes no number, no mark against this endpoint, and nothing below to act on.

Reachability

No score is published: every check here was asked from every reporting vantage on this run and answered by none, so 100 of its 100 points went unmeasured. A percentage over the remainder would be on a different scale from every other percentage on this site, so none is published.

Reachability: no answer
CheckStateWhat this run observed
R1 No answer/metadata answered HTTP 500 from 3 of 3 vantages but returned no usable document: the endpoint is running and refusing this request, which is not the same as being unreachable: HTTP 500 (observed 2026-10-03)
R2 No answerlatency not measured: no vantage was answered (observed 2026-10-03)

Capability transparency

No score is published: no check here ran, because nothing was retrieved for it to read.

Capability transparency: no score
CheckStateWhat this run observed
NR Not observedno CapabilityStatement was retrieved from any vantage on this run

Interop readiness

No score is published: no check here ran, because nothing was retrieved for it to read.

Interop readiness: no score
CheckStateWhat this run observed
NR Not observedno CapabilityStatement was retrieved from any vantage on this run

What each vantage saw

reached from 0 of 3 reporting vantages, on 1 network
VantageResultWhat it sawCondition
github-actions/macos-latestnot reachedHTTP 500HTTP 500, server_error
github-actions/ubuntu-latestnot reachedHTTP 500HTTP 500, server_error
github-actions/windows-latestnot reachedHTTP 500HTTP 500, server_error

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.

What would change this

Nothing is listed here, because no check in this report ran. This project observed nothing about this endpoint on this run, and an absence is not a finding to act on.

If this does not match what you see

This run was not answered from any of 3 vantages on 1 network. A rule applied to one network's address space -- a bot filter, a geo rule, a rate limit -- reaches every vantage on that network at once, and nothing here can tell that apart from an endpoint being down. If this endpoint answers from your own network, that difference is the finding, and this project would rather publish it than keep this page as it stands.

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Where this came from

Listed on the organization's own publication of this base URL, not on a retrieved conformance document: base URL printed verbatim on Health Care Service Corporation's own interoperability site, on the Provider Directory API page, as 'API endpoint base url: https://api.hcsc.net', with the instruction to substitute it for {environmentBaseUrl} in the paths the downloadable API spec gives. The page covers the Blue Cross and Blue Shield plans HCSC operates in Illinois, Montana, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas, so the entry is named for the corporation rather than for the Texas brand: one address serves five state plans and nothing in it distinguishes them. Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Texas's own domain publishes no interoperability or developer page at all; its 583-URL sitemap contains none (recorded 2026-08-19). Published at https://interoperability.hcsc.com/s/provider-directory-api. On the verification date this probe observed: HTTP 500 to a GET of /metadata. TLS is clean from this vantage with and without certificate verification, so the host is live and the server is erroring at the conformance path FHIR R4 requires every server to publish. The page prints this string as a base URL to substitute into spec paths rather than as a FHIR base, which is recorded here rather than repaired: no other address for this surface is printed, and constructing one would be a guess. No later re-check is recorded, so the date above is the last time anyone checked this entry against the live endpoint.

The same run, as data: this endpoint's JSON, what its CapabilityStatement declares, resource by resource, and every observation on record for it, with the dates it answered and the dates it did not.

This is an observational snapshot of a public, unauthenticated surface. It is not an audit, a ranking of care quality, or a statement about anyone's regulatory compliance. Grades are comparable within a category only. See how we grade.