Medicaid Open Data

Medicaid Open Data is a federal government open-data portal for United States running DKAN. It exposes the DKAN catalog API, a standardized machine-readable interface over approximately 255 datasets, supporting programmatic dataset search, metadata retrieval, and resource access. Because it runs DKAN, it shares a consistent API surface with every other DKAN portal, making it uniformly harvestable and integrable.

Medicaid Open Data publishes 1 API on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Open Data, DKAN, Data Catalog, DCAT, and Government Data.

Medicaid Open Data’s developer surface includes documentation and 6 more developer resources.

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16.2/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 3/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.6

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1 APIs

Open DataDKANData CatalogDCATGovernment DataFederal GovernmentUnited States

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scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.6

Composite quality — 16.2/100 · emerging

Contract Quality 0.0 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 1.7 / 20

Commercial Clarity 5.8 / 20

Operational Transparency 2.7 / 13

Governance 0.0 / 12

Discoverability 6.9 / 10

Agent readiness — 3/100 · human only

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

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

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APIs 1

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

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Data Medicaid Gov Rate Limits

1 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

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

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

RateLimits

RateLimits

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Plans

Plans

FinOps

FinOps

Company 1

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Review

Review

Source (apis.yml)

aid: data-medicaid-gov
name: Medicaid Open Data
description: Medicaid Open Data is a federal government open-data portal for United States running DKAN. It exposes the DKAN
  catalog API, a standardized machine-readable interface over approximately 255 datasets, supporting programmatic dataset
  search, metadata retrieval, and resource access. Because it runs DKAN, it shares a consistent API surface with every other
  DKAN portal, making it uniformly harvestable and integrable.
kind: government
accessModel:
  pricing: free
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Free
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - plans
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/data-medicaid-gov.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/data-medicaid-gov/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
- Open Data
- DKAN
- Data Catalog
- DCAT
- Government Data
- Federal Government
- United States
created: '2026-06-04'
modified: '2026-06-04'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
- aid: data-medicaid-gov:catalog
  name: Medicaid Open Data DKAN API
  description: DKAN open-data API for Medicaid Open Data, covering a catalog of 255 datasets. Provides the DKAN search API
    (/api/1/search), the metastore (/api/1/metastore/schemas/dataset/items), and a CKAN-compatible action API where enabled.
    Base URL https://data.medicaid.gov/api/1/.
  humanURL: https://data.medicaid.gov
  baseURL: https://data.medicaid.gov/api/1
  tags:
  - DKAN
  - Open Data
  - Catalog
  - REST
  - JSON
  - Metastore
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://dkan.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
  - type: Website
    url: https://data.medicaid.gov
  - type: x-api-endpoint
    url: https://data.medicaid.gov/api/1/search?page-size=1
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/data-medicaid-gov-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://data.medicaid.gov
- type: Documentation
  url: https://dkan.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
- type: Plans
  url: plans/data-medicaid-gov-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/data-medicaid-gov-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/data-medicaid-gov-finops.yml
- type: Review
  url: review.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com

Medicaid Open Data

Kin Score

APIs 1

Medicaid Open Data DKAN API

Pricing Plans 1

Data Medicaid Gov Plans Pricing