# MedHOK (Hearst Communications)

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/medhok-hearst-communications/  
**Website:** https://mhk.com/  
**APIs profiled:** 0

MHK (formerly MedHOK), part of Hearst Health, is a healthcare technology company providing a unified SaaS platform for health plans and payers. Its CareProminence suite spans utilization management, care management, complaints/appeals and grievances, pharmacy management, population health and quality management, and interoperability (the MHK Interop Suite), while its MarketProminence suite covers enrollment and member maintenance, premium billing, financial reconciliation, and member web portals. MHK helps Medicare, Medicaid, and commercial health plans streamline operations, ensure regulatory compliance, and improve the member experience. The MHK Interop Suite supports FHIR, SMART on FHIR, Da Vinci, and CMS-0057 interoperability requirements. MHK publishes HITRUST and ISO 27001 certification and NCQA prevalidation. The company operates a public marketing and resource site but does not publish a public developer portal or API program.

## Kin Score — 16.6 / 100 (emerging)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 16.6).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 57.4 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 18.2 |
| Contract Governance | 18.2 |
| Operational Transparency | 0.0 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 7.1 |
| Commercial Clarity | 18.4 |
| Access Clarity | 18.4 |

Regulatory layer — **Health**: 42.5 (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 (1)

- **Medhok Hearst Communications Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

## Tags

Company, Healthcare, Health Plans, Payer, Care Management, Utilization Management, Interoperability, FHIR, Compliance

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