HealthSherpa

HealthSherpa is the leading ACA (Affordable Care Act) health insurance quoting and enrollment platform, and was the first company to partner with CMS to offer Enhanced Direct Enrollment (EDE) for agents. Its developer surface, HealthSherpa ONE (one.healthsherpa.com), exposes a public OpenAPI 3.1 REST API for on- and off-exchange ACA plan quoting, county/issuer/provider reference lookups, agent and self-service enrollment sessions, and an approval-gated direct enrollment API covering the full off-exchange (ICHRA) application lifecycle — create, update, submit, cancel, terminate, supporting-document upload, and payment redirect. Authentication is a single x-api-key header; enrollment writes support Idempotency-Key with 24-hour retention. Separate ICHRA and Medicare Partner APIs provide QuoteConnect/EnrollConnect, deeplinked enrollment, and webhooks. HealthSherpa publishes first-party Agent Skills, an llms.txt, and vibe-coding prompts for agents.

HealthSherpa publishes 1 API on the APIs.io network: Public API (ONE). Tagged areas include Company, Health Insurance, Healthcare, ACA, and Enrollment.

The HealthSherpa catalog on APIs.io includes 1 event-driven AsyncAPI specification.

HealthSherpa’s developer surface includes documentation, API reference, getting-started guide, signup flow, support, authentication, and 18 more developer resources.

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37.7/100 thin Agent 80/100 agent native Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-20 · rubric v0.4
1 APIs 1 MCP Servers 1 Agent Skills 0 Features
CompanyHealth InsuranceHealthcareACAEnrollmentQuotingInsuranceEnhanced Direct EnrollmentICHRA

API Rating

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scored 2026-07-20 · rubric v0.4
Composite quality — 37.7/100 · thin
Contract Quality 9.4 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 13.0 / 20
Commercial Clarity 4.2 / 20
Operational Transparency 1.7 / 13
Governance 0.0 / 12
Discoverability 9.3 / 10
Agent readiness — 80/100 · agent native
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 15 / 15
MCP Server 12 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10
Idempotency 9 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 8 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7
Typed Event Surface 6 / 6
Agent Skills 5 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3
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APIs

HealthSherpa Public API (ONE)

Public OpenAPI 3.1 REST API for ACA plan quoting, county/issuer/provider reference lookups, agent and self-service enrollment sessions, and an approval-gated direct off-exchange...

MCP Servers

healthsherpa-mcp.yml

MCP SERVER

Agent Skills

ichra-platform-integration

AGENT SKILL

Event Specifications

Healthsherpa Ichra Webhooks

ASYNCAPI

Resources

Get Started 4

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

DeveloperPortal
DeveloperPortal
 GettingStarted
GettingStarted
 SignUp
SignUp
 Login
Login

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation
Documentation
 APIReference
APIReference

Agent Surfaces 4

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

LLMsTxt
LLMsTxt
 MCPServer
MCPServer
 AgentSkill
AgentSkill
 AgenticAccess
AgenticAccess

Design & Contract 7

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Idempotency
Idempotency
 Conventions
Conventions
 ErrorCatalog
ErrorCatalog
 Lifecycle
Lifecycle
 DataModel
DataModel
 Conformance
Conformance
 Webhooks
Webhooks

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Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization
GitHubOrganization

Access & Security 3

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Authentication
Authentication
 Compliance
Compliance
 DomainSecurity
DomainSecurity

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Support
Support

Company 1

The organization behind the API

Website
Website

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Overlay
Overlay

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: healthsherpa
name: HealthSherpa
description: HealthSherpa is the leading ACA (Affordable Care Act) health insurance quoting and enrollment platform, and was
  the first company to partner with CMS to offer Enhanced Direct Enrollment (EDE) for agents. Its developer surface, HealthSherpa
  ONE (one.healthsherpa.com), exposes a public OpenAPI 3.1 REST API for on- and off-exchange ACA plan quoting, county/issuer/provider
  reference lookups, agent and self-service enrollment sessions, and an approval-gated direct enrollment API covering the
  full off-exchange (ICHRA) application lifecycle — create, update, submit, cancel, terminate, supporting-document upload,
  and payment redirect. Authentication is a single x-api-key header; enrollment writes support Idempotency-Key with 24-hour
  retention. Separate ICHRA and Medicare Partner APIs provide QuoteConnect/EnrollConnect, deeplinked enrollment, and webhooks.
  HealthSherpa publishes first-party Agent Skills, an llms.txt, and vibe-coding prompts for agents.
image: https://healthsherpa-21715791.hs-sites.com/hubfs/raw_assets/public/HealthSherpa%20Theme/HealthSherpa/images/favicon/apple-touch-icon.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/healthsherpa/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- a16z
- y-combinator
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-19'
tags:
- Company
- Health Insurance
- Healthcare
- ACA
- Enrollment
- Quoting
- Insurance
- Enhanced Direct Enrollment
- ICHRA
apis:
- name: HealthSherpa Public API (ONE)
  description: Public OpenAPI 3.1 REST API for ACA plan quoting, county/issuer/provider reference lookups, agent and self-service
    enrollment sessions, and an approval-gated direct off-exchange (ICHRA) enrollment lifecycle. Auth is x-api-key; enrollment
    POSTs support Idempotency-Key (24h retention).
  humanURL: https://one.healthsherpa.com/
  baseURL: https://api.one.healthsherpa.com
  tags:
  - Quoting
  - Enrollment
  - Reference
  - ACA
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/healthsherpa-one-openapi.json
  - type: x-openapi-source
    url: https://one.healthsherpa.com/openapi.json
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://one.healthsherpa.com/docs.html
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://one.healthsherpa.com/docs.html
common:
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://one.healthsherpa.com/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://one.healthsherpa.com/docs.html
- type: APIReference
  url: https://one.healthsherpa.com/docs.html
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://one.healthsherpa.com/vibe-coders.html
- type: SignUp
  url: https://one.healthsherpa.com/register.html
- type: Login
  url: https://one.healthsherpa.com/portal.html
- type: Support
  url: mailto:developers@one.healthsherpa.com
- type: Website
  url: https://www.healthsherpa.com
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/healthsherpa
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/healthsherpa-llms.txt
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/healthsherpa-authentication.yml
- type: Idempotency
  url: conventions/healthsherpa-conventions.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/healthsherpa-conventions.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/healthsherpa-problem-types.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/healthsherpa-lifecycle.yml
- type: DataModel
  url: data-model/healthsherpa-data-model.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/healthsherpa-conformance.yml
- type: Compliance
  url: https://www.healthsherpa.com/agents_agencies
- type: MCPServer
  url: mcp/healthsherpa-mcp.yml
- type: Overlay
  url: overlays/healthsherpa-one-overlay.yaml
- type: Webhooks
  url: asyncapi/healthsherpa-ichra-webhooks.yml
- type: AgentSkill
  url: skills/_index.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/healthsherpa-domain-security.yml
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/healthsherpa-agentic-access.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-19'
  status: backfilled
  pass: local-v1
  note: backfilled from .gitignore signal + verified work evidence