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Cms Gov Patient Example

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Cms Gov Patient Example is an example object payload from CMS — Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, with 8 top-level fields. It illustrates the shape of data this provider's APIs accept or return.

Top-level fields

resourceTypeidmetaidentifiernamegenderbirthDateaddress

Example Payload

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{
  "resourceType": "Patient",
  "id": "-20140000008325",
  "meta": {
    "lastUpdated": "2026-04-30T12:34:56.000-05:00",
    "profile": ["http://hl7.org/fhir/us/carin-bb/StructureDefinition/C4BB-Patient"]
  },
  "identifier": [
    {
      "system": "https://bluebutton.cms.gov/resources/variables/bene_id",
      "value": "-20140000008325",
      "use": "official"
    },
    {
      "system": "http://hl7.org/fhir/sid/us-mbi",
      "value": "1S00E00JA00",
      "use": "usual"
    }
  ],
  "name": [
    { "use": "official", "family": "Doe", "given": ["Jane", "Q"] }
  ],
  "gender": "female",
  "birthDate": "1955-06-15",
  "address": [
    {
      "use": "home",
      "city": "Hartford",
      "state": "CT",
      "postalCode": "06103",
      "country": "US"
    }
  ]
}