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Optum Fhir Patient Example

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Optum Fhir Patient Example is an example object payload from UnitedHealth Group, with 10 top-level fields. It illustrates the shape of data this provider's APIs accept or return.

Top-level fields

resourceTypeidmetaidentifiernamebirthDategenderaddresstelecomcommunication

Example Payload

{
  "resourceType": "Patient",
  "id": "uh-patient-123456789",
  "meta": {
    "lastUpdated": "2026-04-01T10:00:00Z",
    "profile": [
      "http://hl7.org/fhir/us/core/StructureDefinition/us-core-patient"
    ]
  },
  "identifier": [
    {
      "system": "https://api.uhc.com/fhir/R4/member-id",
      "value": "123456789"
    },
    {
      "system": "http://hl7.org/fhir/sid/us-mbi",
      "value": "1EG4TE5MK73"
    }
  ],
  "name": [
    {
      "use": "official",
      "family": "Johnson",
      "given": [
        "Michael",
        "James"
      ],
      "prefix": [
        "Mr."
      ]
    }
  ],
  "birthDate": "1970-03-15",
  "gender": "male",
  "address": [
    {
      "use": "home",
      "line": [
        "789 Elm Street"
      ],
      "city": "Minnetonka",
      "state": "MN",
      "postalCode": "55345"
    }
  ],
  "telecom": [
    {
      "system": "phone",
      "value": "612-555-0300",
      "use": "home"
    },
    {
      "system": "email",
      "value": "mjohnson@email.com"
    }
  ],
  "communication": [
    {
      "language": {
        "coding": [
          {
            "system": "urn:ietf:bcp:47",
            "code": "en"
          }
        ]
      },
      "preferred": true
    }
  ]
}