Community Health Systems

Community Health Systems (CHS) is a Fortune 500 hospital operator that owns, leases, and operates general acute care hospitals across the United States. In compliance with the CMS Interoperability and Patient Access Final Rule (CMS-9115-F), CHS publishes FHIR R4 healthcare interoperability APIs that allow third-party applications to access patient demographics and clinical data, adjudicated claims and encounters, formulary information, and provider directory data. The APIs use the HL7 FHIR R4 standard and SMART-on-FHIR authorization for patient-scoped access.

Community Health Systems publishes 5 API contracts indexed on the APIs.io network, including Claims API, Formulary API, Patient API, and 2 more. Tagged areas include CMS-9115-F, FHIR, Healthcare, Hospitals, and Interoperability.

The Community Health Systems catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context and 2 Spectral governance rulesets.

Community Health Systems’ developer surface includes authentication and 17 more developer resources.

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1 published contract

CMS-9115-F FHIR Healthcare Hospitals Interoperability Patient Access Provider Directory SMART on FHIR Fortune 500

What this lets a business do 1

Business capabilities this provider's published APIs can perform, derived from its own contracts. Browse all capabilities →

Health Information Management

BC-2900

PatientPractitioner

GET /Patient GET /Practitioner

Kin Score

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scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0

Composite quality — 27.0/100 · thin

Contract Quality 10.6 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 2.0 / 17

Access Clarity 0.9 / 17

Operational Transparency 0.6 / 11

Contract Governance 1.4 / 10

Discoverability 5.6 / 9

Regulatory Posture 4.0 / 15

Agent readiness — 27/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

Documented Reversibility 6 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 9 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 4 / 4

Delegated User Identity 6 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

Pagination 5 / 5

Distinct Operations 3 / 3

MCP Tool Quality 6 / 6

Regulatory Posture applies to this provider. Its tags matched the Health regime, so Regulatory Posture carries 15 points of the composite. If this regime is wrong for your business, say so on your provider repo — the applicability map is public and we will correct it.

Create-or-Update Ergonomics does not apply to this provider. The published contracts declare no write operations, and a read-only API cannot create-or-update. The facet is excluded from this provider's denominator entirely — not scored zero. A reference or data API is not deficient for being unable to upsert.

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/.

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Agent readiness — checks not met, largest first (exact, from this profile):

MCP Server +12 pts — deployment.mode + probe verdict on the mcp/ manifest, not the pointer; an unprobed slug falls back to authorship
Stable Error Semantics +8 pts — OpenAPI $refs a shared error schema across 4xx/5xx responses (verified), else common[].type includes ErrorCatalog / ErrorCodes / DeclineCodes
A2A Agent Card +8 pts — a2a/-a2a.yml manifest, graded on conformance.grade against A2A 1.0.0
Request/Response Examples +7 pts — share of operations carrying request/response examples; else an Examples / Code Samples link
Registration Without a Human +6 pts — a `registration_endpoint` in the served RFC 8414 / OIDC discovery document
Typed Event Surface +6 pts — AsyncAPI document, OR webhooks/callbacks objects in the as-published OpenAPI, OR common[].type includes Webhooks

5 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

Kin Score — facets with the most composite points still available (weight × headroom):

Access Clarity scores 5.3 — up to +18.9 composite points
Developer Ergonomics scores 11.9 — up to +17.6 composite points
Contract Quality scores 49.9 — up to +12.5 composite points

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Standards implemented 4

Standards this provider implements or carries. De facto ones are profiled and measured by the API Commons; formal ones come from the standards directory and are linked by the provider's own tags. The evidence column says how each claim was established — not that it was made.

HL7 FHIR

tagged — the provider's own APIs.json carries the standard as a tag; implementation not verified

SMART on FHIR

tagged — the provider's own APIs.json carries the standard as a tag; implementation not verified

OpenAPI

measured — observed by APIs.io (published)

OAuth 2.0

measured — observed by APIs.io (declared)

APIs 5

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Community Health Systems Provider Directory API

FHIR R4 read API exposing provider and pharmacy directory data in compliance with CMS interoperability requirements. Third-party applications can search Practitioner, Organizati...

Community Health Systems Claims API

Adjudicated claims and encounter data

Community Health Systems Formulary API

Formulary and medication data

Community Health Systems Patient API

Patient demographic and clinical data

Community Health Systems Practitioner API

Provider information

Open Collections 5

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

Community Health Systems Patient Access API

OPEN COLLECTION

Community Health Systems Patient Access Claims API

OPEN COLLECTION

Community Health Systems Patient Access Claims Formulary API

OPEN COLLECTION

Community Health Systems Access Claims Patient API

OPEN COLLECTION

Community Health Systems Patient Access Claims Practitioner API

OPEN COLLECTION

Community Health Systems API pricing

Not yet checked against Community Health Systems's own pricing page. Compiled by API Evangelist on 2026-05-05 from www.chs.net/; confirm before you rely on a figure. A free plan or tier is listed.

Plan	Price
Regulatory FHIR / Patient Access freemium	Free

Plan details, limits and sources →

Rate limits

Patient access FHIR (vendor-defined): see EHR vendor documentation varies

Compiled by API Evangelist, not yet checked against Community Health Systems's documentation. Rate-limit details →

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Community Health Systems Plans Pricing

1 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Community Health Systems Rate Limits

1 limits

RATE LIMITS

Service Levels 1

Uptime the provider promises or reports, as SLA4OAI. Read from its own pages; APIs.io runs no monitors.

Community Health Systems

SLA

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Community Health Systems Finops

FINOPS

Semantic Vocabularies 1

JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.

Community Health Systems Context

0 classes · 5 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 2

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

Community Health Systems — jsonschema rules

5 rules · 3 warnings 2 info

SPECTRAL

Community Health Systems API Rules

9 rules · 4 errors 4 warnings 1 info

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 1

Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.

CHS FHIR Bundle

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Security Posture 2

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Community Health Systems Authentication

oauth2 · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Community Health Systems Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Scopes 1

OAuth scopes governing access to this provider's APIs.

Community Health Systems Scopes

2 scopes · authorizationCode

2 scopes

SCOPES

Agentic Access 1

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Community Health Systems Agentic Access

4 operations

4 operations · 0 acting

AGENTIC

Press 5

Recent news and press coverage referencing this provider.

Press Releases

Community Health Systems and Denim Health Announce a ...

CHS migrates to Google Cloud data platform, adopts ...

Community Health Systems, Inc. Announces Third Quarter ...

Community Health Systems Completes Data Migration and ...

Resources

Get Started 1

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

PatientPortal

PatientPortal

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

JSONSchema

JSONSchema

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess

AgenticAccess

Design & Contract 2

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

JSONLD

JSONLD

Spectral

Spectral

Access & Security 3

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Authentication

Authentication

OAuthScopes

OAuthScopes

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

RateLimits

RateLimits

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Plans

Plans

FinOps

FinOps

PrivacyPolicy

PrivacyPolicy

Company 3

The organization behind the API

LinkedIn

Website

Website

Investors

Investors

Other 3

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

CapabilityMap

CapabilityMap

CMSInteroperability

CMSInteroperability

HL7FHIRR4

HL7FHIRR4

Source (apis.yml)

aid: community-health-systems
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/community-health-systems/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
name: Community Health Systems
tags:
- CMS-9115-F
- FHIR
- Healthcare
- Hospitals
- Interoperability
- Patient Access
- Provider Directory
- SMART on FHIR
- Fortune 500
tags_raw:
- CMS-9115-F
- FHIR
- Healthcare
- Hospitals
- Interoperability
- Patient Access
- Provider Directory
- SMART-on-FHIR
- Fortune 500
type: Index
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:
  - openapi
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: free
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: true
  public: false
  gated: none
  gated_source:
  - onboarding
  label: Free · Self-serve signup
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-06'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/community-health-systems.png
access: 3rd-Party
kind: company
created: '2026-03-21'
modified: '2026-05-19'
position: Consuming
description: Community Health Systems (CHS) is a Fortune 500 hospital operator that owns, leases, and operates general acute
  care hospitals across the United States. In compliance with the CMS Interoperability and Patient Access Final Rule (CMS-9115-F),
  CHS publishes FHIR R4 healthcare interoperability APIs that allow third-party applications to access patient demographics
  and clinical data, adjudicated claims and encounters, formulary information, and provider directory data. The APIs use the
  HL7 FHIR R4 standard and SMART-on-FHIR authorization for patient-scoped access.
apis:
- aid: community-health-systems:provider-directory-api
  name: Community Health Systems Provider Directory API
  tags:
  - CMS-9115-F
  - FHIR
  - Healthcare
  - Interoperability
  - Provider Directory
  image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
  baseURL: https://api.chs.net/fhir/r4
  humanURL: https://www.chs.net
  properties:
  - url: https://www.chs.net
    type: Documentation
  - url: https://www.cms.gov/regulations-and-guidance/guidance/interoperability/index
    type: CMSFinalRule
  description: FHIR R4 read API exposing provider and pharmacy directory data in compliance with CMS interoperability requirements.
    Third-party applications can search Practitioner, Organization, and Location resources without patient consent (no PHI
    is exposed by these directory endpoints).
  x-features:
  - FHIR R4 Practitioner, Organization, Location resources
  - Public read access (no patient consent required)
  - Search by name, specialty, location
  x-use-cases:
  - Public provider/pharmacy directory lookup
  - Network adequacy and accessibility reporting
  - Care coordination and referral apps
- aid: community-health-systems:community-health-systems-claims-api
  name: Community Health Systems Claims API
  description: Adjudicated claims and encounter data
  humanURL: https://www.chs.net
  baseURL: https://api.chs.net/fhir/r4
  tags:
  - Claims
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/community-health-systems-claims-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.chs.net
  - type: CMSFinalRule
    url: https://www.cms.gov/regulations-and-guidance/guidance/interoperability/index
- aid: community-health-systems:community-health-systems-formulary-api
  name: Community Health Systems Formulary API
  description: Formulary and medication data
  humanURL: https://www.chs.net
  baseURL: https://api.chs.net/fhir/r4
  tags:
  - Formulary
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/community-health-systems-formulary-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.chs.net
  - type: CMSFinalRule
    url: https://www.cms.gov/regulations-and-guidance/guidance/interoperability/index
- aid: community-health-systems:community-health-systems-patient-api
  name: Community Health Systems Patient API
  description: Patient demographic and clinical data
  humanURL: https://www.chs.net
  baseURL: https://api.chs.net/fhir/r4
  tags:
  - Patients
  tags_raw:
  - Patient
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/community-health-systems-patient-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.chs.net
  - type: CMSFinalRule
    url: https://www.cms.gov/regulations-and-guidance/guidance/interoperability/index
- aid: community-health-systems:community-health-systems-practitioner-api
  name: Community Health Systems Practitioner API
  description: Provider information
  humanURL: https://www.chs.net
  baseURL: https://api.chs.net/fhir/r4
  tags:
  - Practitioner
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/community-health-systems-practitioner-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.chs.net
  - type: CMSFinalRule
    url: https://www.cms.gov/regulations-and-guidance/guidance/interoperability/index
common:
- type: Plans
  url: plans/community-health-systems-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/community-health-systems-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/community-health-systems-finops.yml
- type: CapabilityMap
  url: capabilities/community-health-systems-capability-edges.yml
  name: Community Health Systems Business Capability Map
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/community-health-systems-agentic-access.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/community-health-systems-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/community-health-systems-authentication.yml
- type: OAuthScopes
  url: scopes/community-health-systems-scopes.yml
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/community-health-systems
- type: Website
  url: https://www.chs.net
- type: PatientPortal
  url: https://www.chs.net/patients-visitors/
- type: Investors
  url: https://www.chs.net/investors/
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.chs.net/privacy-statement/
- type: CMSInteroperability
  url: https://www.cms.gov/regulations-and-guidance/guidance/interoperability/index
- type: HL7FHIRR4
  url: https://hl7.org/fhir/R4/
- url: json-ld/community-health-systems-context.jsonld
  type: JSONLD
- url: json-schema/chs-fhir-bundle-schema.json
  type: JSONSchema
- url: rules/community-health-systems-rules.yml
  type: Spectral
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
specificationVersion: '0.23'

Community Health Systems API — frequently asked questions

Does Community Health Systems have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 5 APIs from Community Health Systems, including Community Health Systems Provider Directory API, Community Health Systems Claims API and Community Health Systems Formulary API, and 2 more.

Is there an OpenAPI specification for the Community Health Systems API?

Yes. APIs.io indexes 4 OpenAPI specifications for Community Health Systems, each linked for download from this page.

How do I authenticate with the Community Health Systems API?

Community Health Systems documents its authentication (oauth2 · 1 scheme). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Community Health Systems Authentication.

How much does the Community Health Systems API cost?

APIs.io lists 1 pricing plan for Community Health Systems, with each plan's price, limits and inclusions under Pricing on this page.

Is the Community Health Systems API ready for AI agents?

Community Health Systems has a Kin Score of 27.0 out of 100 (thin) and an Agent Readiness score of 26.6 (agent-aware), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.

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