Sun Life Financial Inc. is a Canadian multinational life and health insurer and asset manager headquartered in Toronto, one of the "life trio" that dominates Canada's insurance market alongside Manulife and Great-West Lifeco. Sun Life writes individual life insurance, individual and group health and dental coverage, group benefits, disability and absence management, annuities and retirement products, and runs a large wealth business through Sun Life Global Investments, SLC Management and MFS Investment Management, with operations across Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, Ireland and Asia. In the United States it is a leading group benefits, stop-loss and dental carrier and owns DentaQuest. Sun Life publishes no developer portal under its own brand: its only named Sun Life API surface is Sun Life Link, a partner-gated benefits-connectivity program that exchanges evidence of insurability, plan setup, enrollment, billing and absence data with HR and benefits-administration platforms including Workday, ADP, UKG, PlanSource, Employee Navigator and bswift, negotiated per client rather than signed up for. The public, machine-readable APIs in the Sun Life group belong to DentaQuest, its U.S. dental subsidiary, which runs an Azure API Management developer portal at developers.dentaquest.com publishing three OpenAPI 3.0.1 definitions: a SMART-on-FHIR Patient Access API, a Da Vinci PDex Plan-Net Provider Directory API and an anonymous FHIR CapabilityStatement endpoint, all released under the CMS Interoperability and Patient Access Final Rule (CMS-9115-F) and served for both the DentaQuest and Delta Dental of Massachusetts brands. Canada's supervisory split between OSFI and the provincial conduct regulators, and the exclusion of insurance from Consumer-Driven Banking, means no open-insurance mandate creates a forcing function for a public Sun Life API in its home market; the U.S. CMS mandate is what produced the only public one.
Sun Life publishes 3 APIs on the APIs.io network: DentaQuest FHIR Patient Access API, DentaQuest FHIR Provider Directory API, and DentaQuest FHIR Metadata API. Tagged areas include Insurance, Canada, Life Insurance, Health Insurance, and Employee Benefits.
Sun Life’s developer surface includes product news, documentation, API reference, getting-started guide, signup flow, support, authentication, and 31 more developer resources.
FHIR R4 (4.0.1) read-only Patient Access API from DentaQuest, the Sun Life U.S. dental company, published under the CMS Interoperability and Patient Access Final Rule (CMS-9115-...
FHIR R4 (4.0.1) Provider Directory API from DentaQuest, the Sun Life U.S. dental company, conforming to the HL7 Da Vinci PDex Plan-Net Implementation Guide 1.1.0 and published u...
Anonymous FHIR R4 conformance endpoint for the DentaQuest (Sun Life U.S.) interoperability platform. A single GET /metadata operation returns the CapabilityStatement of the unde...
aid: sun-life
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/sun-life/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
name: Sun Life
kind: company
description: 'Sun Life Financial Inc. is a Canadian multinational life and health insurer and asset manager headquartered
in Toronto, one of the "life trio" that dominates Canada''s insurance market alongside Manulife and Great-West Lifeco. Sun
Life writes individual life insurance, individual and group health and dental coverage, group benefits, disability and absence
management, annuities and retirement products, and runs a large wealth business through Sun Life Global Investments, SLC
Management and MFS Investment Management, with operations across Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, Ireland
and Asia. In the United States it is a leading group benefits, stop-loss and dental carrier and owns DentaQuest. Sun Life
publishes no developer portal under its own brand: its only named Sun Life API surface is Sun Life Link, a partner-gated
benefits-connectivity program that exchanges evidence of insurability, plan setup, enrollment, billing and absence data
with HR and benefits-administration platforms including Workday, ADP, UKG, PlanSource, Employee Navigator and bswift, negotiated
per client rather than signed up for. The public, machine-readable APIs in the Sun Life group belong to DentaQuest, its
U.S. dental subsidiary, which runs an Azure API Management developer portal at developers.dentaquest.com publishing three
OpenAPI 3.0.1 definitions: a SMART-on-FHIR Patient Access API, a Da Vinci PDex Plan-Net Provider Directory API and an anonymous
FHIR CapabilityStatement endpoint, all released under the CMS Interoperability and Patient Access Final Rule (CMS-9115-F)
and served for both the DentaQuest and Delta Dental of Massachusetts brands. Canada''s supervisory split between OSFI and
the provincial conduct regulators, and the exclusion of insurance from Consumer-Driven Banking, means no open-insurance
mandate creates a forcing function for a public Sun Life API in its home market; the U.S. CMS mandate is what produced the
only public one.'
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
tags:
- Insurance
- Canada
- Life Insurance
- Health Insurance
- Employee Benefits
- Group Benefits
- Dental Insurance
- Disability
- Wealth Management
- Financial Services
- Carrier
- FHIR
- Patient Access
- Provider Directory
- Healthcare Interoperability
- CMS-9115-F
- DentaQuest
- SMART on FHIR
- Dental Benefits
created: '2026-07-25'
modified: '2026-07-25'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
- aid: sun-life-dentaquest-fhir-patient-access
name: DentaQuest FHIR Patient Access API
description: FHIR R4 (4.0.1) read-only Patient Access API from DentaQuest, the Sun Life U.S. dental company, published under
the CMS Interoperability and Patient Access Final Rule (CMS-9115-F). Third-party applications authorize a member with
SMART App Launch 1.0.0 (authorization code + PKCE S256, scopes patient/*.read, launch/patient, offline_access, openid,
fhirUser) against an Okta CIAM authorization server, then read that member's Patient, Coverage, Organization, Practitioner
and RelatedPerson resources, including _history and version reads. Conforms to HL7 US Core (3.1.1, 6.1.0 and 7.0.0-ballot
instantiated in the CapabilityStatement). Errors return a FHIR OperationOutcome. The same API is served for the Delta
Dental of Massachusetts brand.
humanURL: https://developers.dentaquest.com/apis
baseURL: https://api.dentaquest.com/FhirPatientAccess/v1
tags:
- FHIR
- Patient Access
- SMART on FHIR
- Dental
- CMS Mandate
- Health Data
- OAuth
properties:
- type: OpenAPI
url: openapi/sun-life-dentaquest-fhir-patient-access-openapi.json
- type: Overlay
url: overlays/sun-life-dentaquest-fhir-patient-access-overlay.yaml
- type: Documentation
url: https://www.dentaquest.com/en/interoperability-api
- type: APIReference
url: https://developers.dentaquest.com/apis
- type: Authentication
url: authentication/sun-life-authentication.yml
- type: OAuthScopes
url: scopes/sun-life-scopes.yml
- type: OpenIDConnect
url: well-known/sun-life-dentaquest-okta-openid-configuration.json
- type: SignUp
url: https://dentaquest.logicmanager.com/incidents/?t=1241&p=215&k=F0E3BD92F157F9B73EDE82834286E7CEA4044134B39D92AC3EE7E56392194241
- type: AgentSkill
url: skills/sun-life-dentaquest-patient-access-smart-launch.md
- aid: sun-life-dentaquest-fhir-provider-directory
name: DentaQuest FHIR Provider Directory API
description: FHIR R4 (4.0.1) Provider Directory API from DentaQuest, the Sun Life U.S. dental company, conforming to the
HL7 Da Vinci PDex Plan-Net Implementation Guide 1.1.0 and published under CMS-9115-F. Exposes read and search over Practitioner,
PractitionerRole, Organization, Location, HealthcareService, InsurancePlan and Endpoint, each with _history and version
reads, so third-party applications can find in-network dentists and dental plans. Authenticated with an Azure API Management
subscription key sent in the Ocp-Apim-Subscription-Key header or the subscription-key query parameter. Errors return a
FHIR OperationOutcome. The same API is served for the Delta Dental of Massachusetts brand.
humanURL: https://developers.dentaquest.com/apis
baseURL: https://api.dentaquest.com/FhirProviderDirectory
tags:
- FHIR
- Provider Directory
- PDex Plan-Net
- Dental
- CMS Mandate
- Healthcare Providers
properties:
- type: OpenAPI
url: openapi/sun-life-dentaquest-fhir-provider-directory-openapi.json
- type: Overlay
url: overlays/sun-life-dentaquest-fhir-provider-directory-overlay.yaml
- type: Documentation
url: https://www.dentaquest.com/en/interoperability-api
- type: APIReference
url: https://developers.dentaquest.com/apis
- type: Authentication
url: authentication/sun-life-authentication.yml
- type: SignUp
url: https://dentaquest.logicmanager.com/incidents/?t=1241&p=215&k=F0E3BD92F157F9B73EDE82834286E7CEA4044134B39D92AC3EE7E56392194241
- type: AgentSkill
url: skills/sun-life-dentaquest-provider-directory-search.md
- aid: sun-life-dentaquest-fhir-metadata
name: DentaQuest FHIR Metadata API
description: Anonymous FHIR R4 conformance endpoint for the DentaQuest (Sun Life U.S.) interoperability platform. A single
GET /metadata operation returns the CapabilityStatement of the underlying Azure Healthcare APIs FHIR server (software
version 4.0.815), listing every supported resource type, interaction and search parameter in application/json or application/xml.
Requires no credentials and is served on both api.dentaquest.com and api.deltadentalma.com.
humanURL: https://developers.dentaquest.com/apis
baseURL: https://api.dentaquest.com/fhirmetadata
tags:
- FHIR
- Conformance
- CapabilityStatement
- Metadata
- Dental
properties:
- type: OpenAPI
url: openapi/sun-life-dentaquest-fhir-metadata-openapi.json
- type: Overlay
url: overlays/sun-life-dentaquest-fhir-metadata-overlay.yaml
- type: APIReference
url: https://developers.dentaquest.com/apis
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
url: security/sun-life-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
url: https://www.sunlife.com/
- type: AboutUs
url: https://www.sunlife.com/en/about-us/
- type: Canada
url: https://www.sunlife.ca/
- type: UnitedStates
url: https://www.sunlife.com/us/en/
- type: DigitalCapabilities
url: https://www.sunlife.com/us/en/employers/products-and-services/digital-capabilities/
- type: PartnerIntegrations
url: https://www.sunlife.com/us/en/employers/products-and-services/digital-capabilities/sun-life-link/
- type: EmployerPortal
url: https://www.sunlife.com/us/en/employers/products-and-services/digital-capabilities/sun-life-connect/
- type: MemberPortal
url: https://www.sunlife.com/us/en/employers/products-and-services/digital-capabilities/member-portal/
- type: Onboarding
url: https://www.sunlife.com/us/en/employers/products-and-services/digital-capabilities/sun-life-onboard/
- type: WhitePapers
url: https://www.sunlife.com/us/en/employers/products-and-services/digital-capabilities/sun-life-link/navigating-connectivity-in-benefits-administration/
- type: SignIn
url: https://login.sunlifeconnect.com/commonlogin/
- type: AdvisorCommunity
url: https://connect.sunlife.ca/s/
- type: InvestorRelations
url: https://www.sunlife.com/en/investors/
- type: News
url: https://www.sunlife.com/en/newsroom/
- type: Careers
url: https://www.sunlife.com/en/careers/
- type: LinkedIn
url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/sun-life-financial
- type: DeveloperPortal
url: https://developers.dentaquest.com/
- type: Documentation
url: https://www.dentaquest.com/en/interoperability-api
- type: APIReference
url: https://developers.dentaquest.com/apis
- type: GettingStarted
url: https://www.dentaquest.com/en/interoperability-api
- type: SignUp
url: https://dentaquest.logicmanager.com/incidents/?t=1241&p=215&k=F0E3BD92F157F9B73EDE82834286E7CEA4044134B39D92AC3EE7E56392194241
name: Request DentaQuest API access
- type: Support
url: https://www.dentaquest.com/en/contact-us
- type: TermsOfService
url: https://www.dentaquest.com/en/policies/terms-of-use
- type: PrivacyPolicy
url: https://www.dentaquest.com/en/policies/internet-privacy-policy
- type: Compliance
url: https://www.dentaquest.com/en/policies/hipaa-privacy-policy
- type: Authentication
url: authentication/sun-life-authentication.yml
- type: OAuthScopes
url: scopes/sun-life-scopes.yml
- type: OpenIDConnect
url: well-known/sun-life-dentaquest-okta-openid-configuration.json
- type: WellKnown
url: well-known/sun-life-well-known.yml
- type: Conformance
url: conformance/sun-life-conformance.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
url: errors/sun-life-problem-types.yml
- type: Lifecycle
url: lifecycle/sun-life-lifecycle.yml
- type: Conventions
url: conventions/sun-life-conventions.yml
- type: DataModel
url: data-model/sun-life-data-model.yml
- type: MCPServer
url: mcp/sun-life-mcp.yml
name: Candidate MCP tool list (derived, not provider-published)
- type: AgentSkill
url: skills/_index.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
url: llms/sun-life-llms.txt
maintainers:
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