Bright Health Group was a Minneapolis-based healthtech and health-insurance company founded in 2016 by former UnitedHealthcare CEO Bob Sheehy, offering individual, family, and Medicare Advantage plans on the ACA exchanges through its Bright HealthCare brand. Backed by Redpoint Ventures and other venture investors, the company went public in 2021, then exited the insurance business, rebranded to NeueHealth in January 2024 to focus on value-based care delivery (NeueCare) and provider enablement (NeueSolutions), and shut down all remaining Bright HealthCare health-plan operations effective December 31, 2024. NeueHealth was subsequently taken private by New Enterprise Associates. Bright Health never published a public developer program, API, or documentation surface; runout operations are handled under the NeueHealth corporate brand.
Bright Health is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Health Tech, Health Insurance, Insurance, and Medicare Advantage.
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Insurance regime, so
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Create-or-Update Ergonomics could not be measured. We hold no machine-readable contract for
this provider to read, so there is nothing to measure a write surface against. Excluded rather than scored zero:
never-measured and measured-empty are different facts. Publishing an OpenAPI is what makes this facet — and
several others — scorable at all.
The six quality facets above are damped to 85 points between them,
because the conditional facet above carries the other
15. That is why each facet's contribution is shown against a damped
maximum: raising a quality facet moves the composite by 85% of its nominal
weight, not 100%. The full arithmetic is at apis.io/rating/.
aid: bright-health
deliveryModel:
model: unknown
open_source: false
commercial: false
callable_host: false
label: Delivery model not determined — needs a product licence on record
confidence: low
source:
- none
generated: '2026-08-28'
method: derived
accessModel:
pricing: unknown
onboarding: unknown
trial: false
try_now: false
public: false
label: Unknown
confidence: low
source:
- url: https://brighthealthplan.com/
status: 301
note: declared website redirects to https://www.neuehealth.com/bhc/brighthealthcare — a different registrable domain (brighthealthplan.com
-> neuehealth.com), possible rename or acquisition (probed 2026-09-03, roadmap#169)
generated: '2026-07-22'
method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/bright-health.png
name: Bright Health
description: Bright Health Group was a Minneapolis-based healthtech and health-insurance company founded in 2016 by former
UnitedHealthcare CEO Bob Sheehy, offering individual, family, and Medicare Advantage plans on the ACA exchanges through
its Bright HealthCare brand. Backed by Redpoint Ventures and other venture investors, the company went public in 2021, then
exited the insurance business, rebranded to NeueHealth in January 2024 to focus on value-based care delivery (NeueCare)
and provider enablement (NeueSolutions), and shut down all remaining Bright HealthCare health-plan operations effective
December 31, 2024. NeueHealth was subsequently taken private by New Enterprise Associates. Bright Health never published
a public developer program, API, or documentation surface; runout operations are handled under the NeueHealth corporate
brand.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/bright-health/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-api-posture: no-product-api
x-api-posture-basis: observed
x-api-posture-note: Bright Health never published a public developer program, API, or documentation surface; runout operations
are handled under the NeueHealth corporate brand.
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- redpoint-ventures
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-08-10'
tags:
- Company
- Health Tech
- Health Insurance
- Insurance
- Medicare Advantage
- ACA
- Value-Based Care
- Defunct Brand
tags_raw:
- Company
- Healthtech
- Health Insurance
- Insurance
- Medicare Advantage
- ACA
- Value-Based Care
- Defunct Brand
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
url: security/bright-health-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
url: https://brighthealthplan.com/
note: 301s to https://www.neuehealth.com/bhc/brighthealthcare, the Bright HealthCare runout notice on the successor entity's
site. The former www.brighthealthplan.com host 301s to www.brighthealthcare.com, which answers HTTP 530 (dead origin)
— the previous pointer was a broken chain.
x-enrichment:
date: '2026-08-10'
status: nochange
artifacts_added: 1
pass: local-v1
note: Full contract discovery pass (STEP 0b) run against brighthealthplan.com, www.brighthealthplan.com, brighthealthcare.com
and the successor www.neuehealth.com. No OpenAPI, GraphQL, MCP, AsyncAPI, agent card, llms.txt or /.well-known document
served on any host. Domain-security probe refreshed; a well-known probe index recording the absence was written with no
pointer.
x-coverage:
state: none
reason: defunct
detail: Bright HealthCare shut down all health-plan operations effective 2024-12-31 and brighthealthplan.com now 301s to
a NeueHealth runout notice; the old www.brighthealthplan.com host 301s to www.brighthealthcare.com, which returns HTTP
530 with no origin behind it, and the successor NeueHealth site publishes no developer, API or interoperability page at
all.
evidence:
- url: https://www.brighthealthplan.com/
status: 530
- url: https://brighthealthplan.com/
status: 200
- url: https://www.neuehealth.com/developers
status: 404
- url: https://www.neuehealth.com/interoperability
status: 404
- url: https://www.neuehealth.com/.well-known/api-catalog
status: 404
- url: https://api.github.com/orgs/brighthealth
status: 404
checked: '2026-08-10'
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