Cardinal Health is a Fortune 15 global integrated healthcare services and products company that provides pharmaceutical distribution, medical-surgical product distribution, and customized solutions for hospitals, health systems, pharmacies, ambulatory surgery centers, clinical laboratories, and physician offices. Cardinal Health does not publish a public developer portal, but it exchanges high volumes of B2B trading data with customers and suppliers via standard X12 EDI transactions (850, 810, 855, 856, 846, 832, 867) over AS2, SFTP, and private API channels. Third-party EDI platforms such as Orderful, Crossfire, SPS Commerce, Zenbridge, DataTrans, Alluvia, ConnectPointz, and Spark Shipping offer managed connectors into Cardinal Health for order-to-cash, inventory, and supply-chain automation.
Cardinal Health publishes 1 API on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include B2B, Distribution, EDI, Healthcare, and Medical-Surgical.
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Cardinal Health operates an EDI trading partner program for customers and suppliers covering pharmaceutical distribution, medical products, and specialty pharmacy. Integrations ...
aid: cardinal-health
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/cardinal-health/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
name: Cardinal Health
description: Cardinal Health is a Fortune 15 global integrated healthcare services and products company that provides pharmaceutical
distribution, medical-surgical product distribution, and customized solutions for hospitals, health systems, pharmacies,
ambulatory surgery centers, clinical laboratories, and physician offices. Cardinal Health does not publish a public developer
portal, but it exchanges high volumes of B2B trading data with customers and suppliers via standard X12 EDI transactions
(850, 810, 855, 856, 846, 832, 867) over AS2, SFTP, and private API channels. Third-party EDI platforms such as Orderful,
Crossfire, SPS Commerce, Zenbridge, DataTrans, Alluvia, ConnectPointz, and Spark Shipping offer managed connectors into
Cardinal Health for order-to-cash, inventory, and supply-chain automation.
type: Index
kind: company
deliveryModel:
model: saas
open_source: false
commercial: true
callable_host: false
label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
confidence: medium
source:
- pricing
generated: '2026-08-28'
method: derived
accessModel:
pricing: freemium
onboarding: unknown
trial: false
try_now: false
public: false
label: Freemium
confidence: medium
source:
- plans
generated: '2026-07-22'
method: derived
position: Consuming
access: Partner
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/cardinal-health.png
tags:
- B2B
- Distribution
- EDI
- Healthcare
- Medical-Surgical
- Order-to-Cash
- Pharmaceuticals
- Supply Chain
- Trading Partner
- Fortune 100
tags_raw:
- B2B
- Distribution
- EDI
- Healthcare
- Medical-Surgical
- Order-to-Cash
- Pharmaceutical
- Supply Chain
- Trading Partner
- Fortune 100
created: '2026-03-21'
modified: '2026-09-05'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis:
- aid: cardinal-health:edi-trading-partner
name: Cardinal Health EDI Trading Partner Integration
description: Cardinal Health operates an EDI trading partner program for customers and suppliers covering pharmaceutical
distribution, medical products, and specialty pharmacy. Integrations use X12 EDI transactions including 850 Purchase Order,
810 Invoice, 855 PO Acknowledgment, 856 Advance Ship Notice, 846 Inventory Inquiry, 832 Price/Sales Catalog, and 867 Product
Activity Data. Connectivity is offered through AS2, SFTP, and API-fronted EDI through managed integrators. Onboarding
is coordinated with Cardinal Health trading partner teams and typically spans six to ten weeks including mapping and conformance
testing.
humanURL: https://www.cardinalhealth.com/en/services.html
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/cardinal-health.png
tags:
- B2B
- EDI
- Healthcare
- Supply Chain
- Trading Partner
properties:
- url: https://www.cardinalhealth.com/en/services.html
type: Documentation
- url: https://www.cardinalhealth.com/en/contact-us.html
type: Contact
x-features:
- Purchase orders (EDI 850) and acknowledgments (EDI 855)
- Invoicing (EDI 810) and advance ship notices (EDI 856)
- Inventory inquiry (EDI 846) and product activity (EDI 867)
- Price and sales catalog exchange (EDI 832)
- AS2, SFTP, and API-fronted EDI connectivity
- Managed partner onboarding and conformance testing
- Support for medical-surgical and pharmaceutical segments
x-use-cases:
- Hospital and health system procurement automation
- Retail and mail-order pharmacy replenishment
- Ambulatory surgery center and physician office ordering
- Manufacturer/distributor chargeback and rebate processing
- GPO contract pricing and compliance reporting
- Drug traceability and DSCSA-related data exchange
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
url: security/cardinal-health-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
url: https://www.cardinalhealth.com/
- type: Products and Services
url: https://www.cardinalhealth.com/en/services.html
- type: About
url: https://www.cardinalhealth.com/en/about-us.html
- type: Investor Relations
url: https://ir.cardinalhealth.com/
- type: Careers
url: https://www.cardinalhealth.com/en/about-us/careers.html
- type: Contact
url: https://www.cardinalhealth.com/en/contact-us.html
- type: TermsOfService
url: https://www.cardinalhealth.com/en/notices/terms-and-conditions.html
- type: PrivacyPolicy
url: https://www.cardinalhealth.com/en/notices/privacy-policy.html
- type: LinkedIn
url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/cardinal-health
- type: X
url: https://x.com/cardinalhealth
- type: Conformance
url: conformance/cardinal-health-conformance.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
url: llms/cardinal-health-llms.txt
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
url: security/cardinal-health-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: Security
url: security/cardinal-health-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
email: kin@apievangelist.com
x-enrichment:
date: '2026-09-05'
status: minimal
artifacts_added: 6
pass: local-v3
x-coverage:
state: gated
reason: partner-login
detail: 'Cardinal Health runs a real API gateway at api.cardinalhealth.com — Sectigo OV certificate, O=Cardinal Health,
Inc. — but it sits inside a Google Cloud VPC Service Controls perimeter and returns 403 SecurityPolicyViolated to every
anonymous request, /robots.txt included, while the developer portal that search engines still index as "Cardinal Health
API Developer Portal: Home" at developer.np.cardinalhealth.com no longer resolves publicly, leaving the login-only partnerportal.cardinalhealth.com
and a contracted trading-partner onboarding as the only way in.'
evidence:
- url: https://api.cardinalhealth.com/openapi.json
status: 403
- url: https://api.cardinalhealth.com/robots.txt
status: 403
- url: https://developer.np.cardinalhealth.com/
status: 0
- url: https://partnerportal.cardinalhealth.com/.well-known/api-catalog
status: 200
checked: '2026-09-05'
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