# Lantern

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/lantern/  
**Website:** https://lanterncare.com/  
**APIs profiled:** 0

Lantern (legal entity Employer Direct Healthcare, LLC dba Lantern Specialty Care) is a US specialty care platform that connects members with high-quality, lower-cost care for surgery, cancer and infusion therapy — the complex, high-cost episodes that account for roughly half of healthcare spending. Founded in 2011 as SurgeryPlus and later expanded into cancer and infusion care, Lantern sells to employers, public-sector employers, labor union trusts, health plans and benefits consultants, pairing a hand-selected "Network of Excellence" of specialists with dedicated care teams that navigate a member end to end through a treatment journey. Lantern is backed by Insight Partners. As of this enrichment pass Lantern publishes no public developer program, API documentation, machine-readable specification, SDKs or discovery surface — this profile captures its public company, trust and security posture only.

## Kin Score — 15.4 / 100 (emerging)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 15.4).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 57.4 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 2.6 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 7.1 |
| Commercial Clarity | 35.5 |
| Access Clarity | 35.5 |

Regulatory layer — **Health**: 23.8 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 0.0 (human-only)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | no |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Unknown — onboarding: unknown, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: low).

## Security (2)

- **Lantern Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC
- **Lantern Trust Center** — trust center published

## Tags

Company, Healthcare, Health Benefits, Specialty Care, Surgery, Oncology, Employee Benefits, Care Navigation

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/lantern/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.