# UPMC

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/upmc/  
**Website:** https://www.upmc.com/  
**APIs profiled:** 1

A world-renowned health care provider and insurer headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. One of the largest nonprofit health systems in the United States, operating hospitals, physician practices, and a health insurance division (UPMC Health Plan) serving millions of members. UPMC Health Plan exposes an ONC 21st Century Cures Act Developer API for patient-authorized access to clinical and claims data over HL7 FHIR.

## Kin Score — 6.4 / 100 (minimal)

Scored 2026-08-21 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 6.4).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 53.7 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 2.6 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 11.9 |
| Commercial Clarity | 0.0 |
| Access Clarity | 0.0 |

Regulatory layer — **Health**: 7.5 (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).

## APIs (1)

- **UPMC Health Plan ONC 21st Century Cures Act Developer API** — The UPMC Health Plan Developer API is the payer-side FHIR API mandated by the ONC 21st Century Cures Act and the CMS Interoperability and Patient Access Final Rule. It allows re...

## Security (1)

- **Upmc Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

## Use cases (4)

- **Patient Data Portability** — Members move their clinical and claims data into third-party apps for personal use
- **Care Coordination** — Authorized clinical applications retrieve member records to improve care coordination across providers
- **Health Apps and PHRs** — Consumer-facing personal health record and wellness apps connect to UPMC member data with patient consent
- **Provider Directory Lookups** — Apps and portals discover in-network UPMC Health Plan providers through the public provider directory API

## Tags

Healthcare, Health Insurance, Hospitals, Pennsylvania, FHIR

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