Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) · OAuth Scopes

Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) OAuth Scopes

OAuth 2.0 derived

Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) publishes 3 OAuth 2.0 scopes via the authorizationCode flow. Scopes are the fine-grained permissions an application requests at authorization time to act against the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) API on a user’s behalf.

Tokens are issued from https://sandbox-api.va.gov/oauth2/health/v1/token.

This index is generated from the provider’s OpenAPI security definitions (and, where available, its documented scope reference) and refreshes on every APIs.io network build. Browse every provider’s scopes at scopes.apis.io.

Federal-GovernmentHealthcareVeterans

Scopes: 3 Flows: authorizationCode Method: derived

OAuth endpoints

Authorization URL
https://sandbox-api.va.gov/oauth2/health/v1/authorization

Token URL
https://sandbox-api.va.gov/oauth2/health/v1/token

Flows
authorizationCode

Scopes (3)

Scope	Description	Flows
launch/patient	Patient context launch	authorizationCode
offline_access	Refresh tokens	authorizationCode
patient/*.read	Read patient-scoped resources	authorizationCode

📄 Provider scope reference:

Source

OAuth Scopes

generated: '2026-07-11'
method: derived
source: openapi/va-clinical-health-fhir-api-openapi.yml
schemes:
- name: SmartOnFhir
  source: openapi/va-clinical-health-fhir-api-openapi.yml
  flows:
  - flow: authorizationCode
    authorizationUrl: https://sandbox-api.va.gov/oauth2/health/v1/authorization
    tokenUrl: https://sandbox-api.va.gov/oauth2/health/v1/token
scopes:
- scope: launch/patient
  description: Patient context launch
  flows:
  - authorizationCode
  sources:
  - openapi/va-clinical-health-fhir-api-openapi.yml
- scope: offline_access
  description: Refresh tokens
  flows:
  - authorizationCode
  sources:
  - openapi/va-clinical-health-fhir-api-openapi.yml
- scope: patient/*.read
  description: Read patient-scoped resources
  flows:
  - authorizationCode
  sources:
  - openapi/va-clinical-health-fhir-api-openapi.yml

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