# Centene Provider Carrier Entity Search (PCES) API

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/centene/centene-pces/  
**Provider:** Centene — https://apis.io/providers/centene/  
**Base URL:** https://external-api.search.my.centene.com/pces  
**Documentation:** https://partners.centene.com/apiDetail/a3cbbe9e-c2fe-4460-a248-6599e8b746be

Centene Provider Carrier Entity Search (PCES) API is one of 12 APIs that [Centene](https://apis.io/providers/centene/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification. Tagged areas include Provider Search, Search, and Provider. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation and an OpenAPI specification.

A search-index query API over Centene carrier entities, shaped like Elasticsearch — aggregations, buckets, bounding boxes and geo coordinates across 85 schemas. Carries query and custom-query validator operations that lint a query shape before execution. OAuth client credentials with audience ewsext.

## Operations (4)

| Method | Path | Summary |
|---|---|---|
| POST | `/query` | Send a query to Elasticsearch |
| GET | `/custom-mapping` | local mapping file for PCES validations |
| POST | `/custom-query-validator` | providerCarrierEntitySearchCustomQueryValidator |
| POST | `/query-validator` | providerCarrierEntitySearchQueryValidator |

## Machine-readable artifacts (4)

- **Documentation** — https://partners.centene.com/apiDetail/a3cbbe9e-c2fe-4460-a248-6599e8b746be
- **OpenAPI** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/centene/refs/heads/main/openapi/centene-pces-openapi.yaml
- **Overlay** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/centene/refs/heads/main/overlays/centene-pces-overlay.yaml
- **Catalog** — https://partners.centene.com/apis

## Other Centene APIs (11)

- [Centene FHIR Patient Access API](https://apis.io/apis/centene/centene-fhir-patient-access/)
- [Centene FHIR Provider Directory API](https://apis.io/apis/centene/centene-fhir-provider-directory/)
- [Centene Provider RTR - FHIR PDEX Directory API](https://apis.io/apis/centene/centene-fhir-pdex-rtr/)
- [Centene Provider RTR Demographics API](https://apis.io/apis/centene/centene-provider-rtr-demographics/)
- [Centene Provider Carrier Entity Search (PCES) Extract API](https://apis.io/apis/centene/centene-pces-extract/)
- [Centene Provider Search Suggest API](https://apis.io/apis/centene/centene-provider-search-suggest/)
- [Centene Product Mapping V2 API](https://apis.io/apis/centene/centene-product-mapping/)
- [Centene LWC EDI CORE Real Time Service](https://apis.io/apis/centene/centene-edi-core-realtime/)
- [Centene CCM Communication API](https://apis.io/apis/centene/centene-ccm-communication/)
- [Centene CCM SMS User Response Webhook](https://apis.io/apis/centene/centene-ccm-sms-userresponse/)
- [Centene Healow Health API](https://apis.io/apis/centene/centene-healow-health/)

## Tags

Provider Search, Search, Provider

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/apis/centene/centene-pces/). The API's provider profile, Kin Score and agent-readiness rating are at https://apis.io/providers/centene/.