CVS Health

CVS Health is a Fortune 50 healthcare services and retail pharmacy company. Its core operating units include CVS Pharmacy (retail pharmacy and mail-order), CVS Caremark (pharmacy benefit management / PBM), Aetna (health insurance, Medicare, Medicaid, dental and vision), MinuteClinic (walk-in clinics), Oak Street Health (primary care for Medicare patients), and Signify Health (in-home health evaluations). CVS Health does not currently operate a public developer portal or generally available REST API. Programmatic integrations with CVS Pharmacy, Caremark, and Aetna are typically established through business partnership agreements, EDI / NCPDP pharmacy networks, and HIPAA-aligned interoperability channels (e.g., FHIR endpoints exposed to qualifying healthcare partners under regulatory mandates such as the CMS Interoperability Rule). Developer-facing artifacts in this index are limited to public marketing, corporate, and digital health references.

CVS Health is listed with 1 API on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Aetna, Caremark, CVS Pharmacy, Digital Health, and FHIR.

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AetnaCaremarkCVS PharmacyDigital Health FHIR Health Insurance Healthcare HIPAA Interoperability MedicareMinuteClinicOak Street HealthPharmacyPharmacy Benefits ManagementPrescriptionsRetail PharmacySignify HealthFortune 100

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scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0

Composite quality — 6.8/100 · minimal

Contract Quality 0.0 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 0.0 / 17

Access Clarity 0.9 / 17

Operational Transparency 0.9 / 11

Contract Governance 0.0 / 10

Discoverability 4.9 / 9

Regulatory Posture 0.7 / 15

Agent readiness — 1/100 · human only

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 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 0 / 4

Delegated User Identity 0 / 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 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/.

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

Machine-Readable Contract +18 pts — api_specs includes an OpenAPI document
MCP Server +12 pts — deployment.mode + probe verdict on the mcp/ manifest, not the pointer; an unprobed slug falls back to authorship
Agentic Access Contract +10 pts — agentic_access artifact present (x-agentic-access), graded by author
Machine-Readable Auth +10 pts — a served openid-configuration/oauth-authorization-server carrying `issuer` (served), else the securitySchemes class in the provider OpenAPIs — bound (mutualTLS, DPoP, Signature) > negotiable (oauth2 authorizationCode/clientCredentials, openIdConnect) > bearer (http bearer, apiKey)
Idempotency +9 pts — OpenAPI mutating operations declare an idempotency key — a header, a request-body property, or a named de-duplication token whose own description says so (verified); else common[].type matches /idempoten/i (documented)
Stable Error Semantics +8 pts — OpenAPI $refs a shared error schema across 4xx/5xx responses (verified), else common[].type includes ErrorCatalog / ErrorCodes / DeclineCodes

12 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

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

Contract Quality scores 0.0 — up to +25.0 composite points
Developer Ergonomics scores 0.0 — up to +20.0 composite points
Access Clarity scores 5.3 — up to +18.9 composite points

Each check links to what satisfies it. Publish the artifact, or tell us where it already lives, and the score moves on the next scoring run.

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Markets this provider is in provisional

The Kin Score Market layer reads a provider inside its market: its position, and how deep its integrations go. Depth is only comparable within a position. Provisional and unweighted: not part of the Kin Score or agent readiness.

Market	Position	Depth	Registered MCP server	Declares compatibility
E-Prescribing (pharmacy, e-prescribing, medication data)	standard	53.9	-	-
Payer Interoperability (CAQH CORE, X12, Da Vinci, WEDI)	standard	53.9	-	-
US NPI Health Provider Registry (CMS NPPES)	standard	53.9	-	-

Registered MCP server and declares compatibility are report only — not weighted. Undeclared means we found nothing we can read, so there is no number: we never infer integrations.

Standards implemented 1

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

APIs 1

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

CVS Health Partner Integrations

CVS Health does not publish a unified public REST API or developer portal. Pharmacy, PBM, and Aetna integrations are conducted via contracted partner channels using industry-sta...

CVS Health API pricing

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

Plan	Price
Aetna Patient Access (FHIR) freemium	Free
Partner Integration enterprise	—

Plan details, limits and sources →

Rate limits

Patient access FHIR: per-app limits set at SMART-on-FHIR registration varies
Partner integration: per partner integration agreement varies

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

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Cvs Health Plans Pricing

2 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Cvs Health Rate Limits

2 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

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

Cvs Health Finops

FINOPS

Security Posture 1

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

Cvs Health Domain Security

TLSv1.2 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Press 5

Recent news and press coverage referencing this provider.

CVS Health News and Press Releases

CVS Health and Google have partnered to use artificial ...

CVS Health and Google Cloud announce new strategic ...

Improving health plan member experiences with AI

Aetna Launches New AI and Digital Tools to Improve ...

Resources

Build 2

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

MinuteClinic

MinuteClinic

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

RateLimits

RateLimits

Commercial 4

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Plans

FinOps

PrivacyPolicy

TermsOfService

Company 6

The organization behind the API

Website

AboutUs

Newsroom

Careers

LinkedIn

Twitter

Twitter

Other 7

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

BusinessStrategy

DigitalHealth

CVSPharmacy

Caremark

Aetna

OakStreetHealth

SignifyHealth

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Source (apis.yml)

aid: cvs-health
name: CVS Health
kind: company
description: CVS Health is a Fortune 50 healthcare services and retail pharmacy company. Its core operating units include
  CVS Pharmacy (retail pharmacy and mail-order), CVS Caremark (pharmacy benefit management / PBM), Aetna (health insurance,
  Medicare, Medicaid, dental and vision), MinuteClinic (walk-in clinics), Oak Street Health (primary care for Medicare patients),
  and Signify Health (in-home health evaluations). CVS Health does not currently operate a public developer portal or generally
  available REST API. Programmatic integrations with CVS Pharmacy, Caremark, and Aetna are typically established through business
  partnership agreements, EDI / NCPDP pharmacy networks, and HIPAA-aligned interoperability channels (e.g., FHIR endpoints
  exposed to qualifying healthcare partners under regulatory mandates such as the CMS Interoperability Rule). Developer-facing
  artifacts in this index are limited to public marketing, corporate, and digital health references.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/cvs-health/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
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: low
  source:
  - plans
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-06'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/cvs-health.png
type: Index
access: 3rd-Party
position: Consuming
created: '2026-03-21'
modified: '2026-04-28'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
tags:
- Aetna
- Caremark
- CVS Pharmacy
- Digital Health
- FHIR
- Health Insurance
- Healthcare
- HIPAA
- Interoperability
- Medicare
- MinuteClinic
- Oak Street Health
- Pharmacy
- Pharmacy Benefits Management
- Prescriptions
- Retail Pharmacy
- Signify Health
- Fortune 100
apis:
- aid: cvs-health:partner-integrations
  name: CVS Health Partner Integrations
  description: CVS Health does not publish a unified public REST API or developer portal. Pharmacy, PBM, and Aetna integrations
    are conducted via contracted partner channels using industry-standard rails such as NCPDP SCRIPT for e-prescribing, NCPDP
    Telecom for claims, X12 EDI for healthcare transactions, and HL7 / FHIR endpoints required for CMS Interoperability and
    Patient Access compliance. This entry catalogs the public corporate, digital health, and regulatory references useful
    for partner onboarding research.
  image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
  humanURL: https://www.cvshealth.com/social-responsibility/digital-health
  tags:
  - EDI
  - FHIR
  - Healthcare
  - HL7
  - NCPDP
  - Partner Integration
  - Pharmacy
  properties:
  - type: DigitalHealth
    url: https://www.cvshealth.com/social-responsibility/digital-health
  - type: Caremark
    url: https://www.caremark.com/
  - type: Aetna
    url: https://www.aetna.com/
  - type: MinuteClinic
    url: https://www.cvs.com/minuteclinic/
common:
- type: Plans
  url: plans/cvs-health-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/cvs-health-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/cvs-health-finops.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/cvs-health-domain-security.yml
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/cvs-health
- type: Website
  url: https://www.cvshealth.com/
- type: AboutUs
  url: https://www.cvshealth.com/about
- type: BusinessStrategy
  url: https://www.cvshealth.com/about/business-strategy.html
- type: DigitalHealth
  url: https://www.cvshealth.com/social-responsibility/digital-health
- type: CVSPharmacy
  url: https://www.cvs.com/
- type: Caremark
  url: https://www.caremark.com/
- type: Aetna
  url: https://www.aetna.com/
- type: MinuteClinic
  url: https://www.cvs.com/minuteclinic/
- type: OakStreetHealth
  url: https://www.oakstreethealth.com/
- type: SignifyHealth
  url: https://www.signifyhealth.com/
- type: Newsroom
  url: https://www.cvshealth.com/news
- type: Careers
  url: https://jobs.cvshealth.com/
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.cvshealth.com/legal/privacy-policy.html
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.cvshealth.com/legal/terms-of-use.html
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/cvs-health/
- type: Twitter
  url: https://twitter.com/CVSHealth
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com

CVS Health API — frequently asked questions

Does CVS Health have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 1 API from CVS Health, including CVS Health Partner Integrations.

How much does the CVS Health API cost?

APIs.io lists 2 pricing plans for CVS Health, with each plan's price, limits and inclusions under Pricing on this page.

Is the CVS Health API ready for AI agents?

CVS Health has a Kin Score of 6.8 out of 100 (minimal) and an Agent Readiness score of 0.6 (human-only), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.

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